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A comment on Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000). Parent comment

Re:Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000) by bubblyworld on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:13AM (#39559374)
Do you have any examples of type two code you could link to? I want to see how bad it can get!
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Re:Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000) by grecy on Friday March 01, 2024 @04:57PM (#39567273)
I mean, it's not like it's in github or anything like that - again, the people that write it don't even know what version control is.

Imagine a file with 100,000 LOC, some commented out, copies of functions like "addCustomer()" and then "addCustomerNEW()" and then NEWAddCustomer() and then "makeCustomerDanGNewest()" and so on and so forth. Absolute gong show.

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