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.
"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?"
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
Simplifying poorly-written complex code with an equivalent but simpler expression, only to find out after deploying to production that it wasn't equivalent.
+1 to all the bullets lol
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PHP??
PHP.
PHP is better as a command-line language than a web language.
Okay, I am a newbie to PHP.
"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?"
Yess a clear code is what we want