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- adjective Not
maintainable .
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It's not just learning from old code either, sometimes that old messy, "unmaintainable" code, is actually just battle hardened and bug-free.
Planet Apache Adrian Sutton 2010
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Cheap code is not the best code — the best code is the code that ends up not needing to be written because the genius programmer sat on the problem for a day thinking about it and engineered a solution with 100 lines of coding instead of starting in at 9am producing lines of code and ending up with 1000 lines of incomprehensible, inefficient and unmaintainable spaghetti code by 5pm that day.
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But I'd like to point out that I've been on a lot of Java projects that were completely unmaintainable.
Twitter/Ruby/Scala/Blah Jack Cough 2009
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But I'd like to point out that I've been on a lot of Java projects that were completely unmaintainable.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jack Cough 2009
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Users know what good features look like; the programmer has a deep and complicated view of what program changes will screw up every future change, and quickly make the whole program unmaintainable.
Did McCain say he'd pick judges like John Roberts but he draws the line at Samuel Alito? Ann Althouse 2008
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Most academic code is pretty sloppy, buggy and unmaintainable.
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December 12th, 2007 at 11: 57 am PST why would anybody use that 7 year old unmaintainable perl code over wordpress beautiful PHP? reply
Movable Type Finally Goes Open-Source Erick Schonfeld 2005
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The Navy was also investing in lengthening the lives of its ships and submarines and the upgrading of systems that became unmaintainable or obsolete, Admiral Simpson-Anderson said.
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No doubt too the gale blowing the flames and smoke hither and thither on the exposed slopes of the Palatine, had rendered a stand in the open unmaintainable.
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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Writing JavaScript without applying patterns and best practices leaves your code unmaintainable.
Site Home Katrien DG 2011
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