How To Write Unmaintainable Code

[Martin Krischik]

Hi there.

http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html

and search for "Ada" ;-).

Martin

PS: There is a /. article as well:

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/21/1355243&tid=133&tid=156&tid=8

[David Trudgett]

Post by Martin Krischik
Hi there.
http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
and search for "Ada" ;-).

It's a funny read! One of the good chuckles (for a Lisp programmer)
was towards the end, where the author thought he would take a
"serious" tack, and started a paragraph with: "Think of what might
happen if we started storing source code as structured data." :-) This
is, of course, exactly how Lisp works.

Admittedly, the author must have had in mind a type of structure that
is a whole lot more detailed and complex than a Lisp program, but that
didn't get in the way of a good chuckle! ;-)

I also liked the bit where it was recommended to reject the use of Ada
because one's huge suite of tools, such as lint, which work around C's
shortcomings, would no longer be able to be used.

David