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cm0002@suppo.fi to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 months ago

The Six Stages of Code Grief

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The Six Stages of Code Grief

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cm0002@suppo.fi to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 months ago
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    Even worse than there being no comments: the code is extensively commented, but its function has drifted from what the comments describe to the point where they are actively misleading.

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      The good old “signal left when switching to right lane.”

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        I mean sometimes you gotta trick the compiler to get a leg up in runtime.

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