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What you hate most as a Programmer?

  • Having to read code where someone was trying to be smart.

  • The "programming is just Ctrl+C Ctrl+V" meme.

  • Confused languages that think they're C when they're not.

  • Object-Oriented Programming taken too far.

  • PHP

Nightmare as a Programmer?

Simplifying poorly-written complex code with an equivalent but simpler expression, only to find out after deploying to production that it wasn't equivalent.

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dastasoft

+1 to all the bullets lol

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Suraj Vishwakarma

🤣🤣

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Suraj Vishwakarma

PHP??

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

PHP.

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cubiclesocial

PHP is better as a command-line language than a web language.

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Suraj Vishwakarma

Okay, I am a newbie to PHP.

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Michel Renaud

"Having to read code where someone was trying to be smart"

So much this! After figuring it out, I'll think "well, that's pretty cool and clever". But then I will likely change it to something more readable because, more often than not, cleverness = maintenance nightmare.

Oh and, I've often been too clever myself for my own good. Go back into some piece of codes a couple of weeks later, come across "me being clever the other day" and going, "WTF does this do?"

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Suraj Vishwakarma

Yess a clear code is what we want