How To Write Unmaintainable Code

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Ensure a job for life ;-)

I thought I read this somewhere before, googling it. Ah this is Roedy's original pdf from 2000 http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/jv/510s05/unmaint.pdf

I found numerical recipes in c to be pretty tricky when I started coding. It still can be unless you know the algorithms up and down (certainly with the shifted vectors/matrices...)

I've just saw the pdf, I think that that was his first iteration for this idea.

I always felt that there aren't strong convention in C development because everybody "says I know C" and codes in his own way - therefor you can easily get unmaintainable code.

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