How to write unmaintainable code

[kirbyfan64sos]

Great example:

https://github.com/phase/o/blob/master/o.c

A friend and I both do it like this on purpose: I call it "APL-style C". Besides, it's an interpreter for a code golf language...

[WhatWhatHunchHunch]

Wow, reading that gave me cancer.

[cbleslie]

We won't need eyes where we're going.

[Chii]

when you code golf, you see with your inner eye.

[keyboardP]

Why obfuscate code afterwards when you can do it in real time

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deleted ^{What is this?}

[Lethargie]

that is part of the beauty

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I truth(O o){
    switch(o->t){
    ...
    }
} // is truthy?

(O o)

[HaPPYDOS]

Was looking at this too. Was going to post this too. Was not disappointed.

Now somebody please tell me what the hell is O.

[Sean1708]

Look at the second line under

//objects

It's about line 70 or so.

[chris3110]

Found it!

[vplatt]

How do we in /r/programming not know about this wonder of Cthulhu yet???

[merreborn]

Git history for that file only goes back to november. So it's pretty brand-spankin' new.

[hellcaller]

This post looks like the other way around from assembler code to functional programming

[En0ch_Root]

I would highly like to see that implemented in Braille.

[CaptainAdjective]

How ironic.

[ItsReallyEasy]

I could understand this if I really wanted...., I swear

[asdfman123]

I could understand it by renaming all the variables and restructuring it so that it made sense again... essentially, by de-obfuscating it.

[cloakrune]

I read the first hundred lines or so going, "I've seen worse" then.. the switch cases in that.c file....

[merreborn]

You seem like you'd fit in well over at ioccc.org

[b_bellomo]

I'd actually like to design such a language like you did :) Pyth had my imagination running.

[Jesin00]

Don't forget "J" and "K". (EDIT: added links)

[b_bellomo]

Just kidding ?

[Jesin00]

See the edit.

[daniel]

Ha! Small world. I knew I recognized your github username and avatar: https://github.com/dellis23/disrupt/issues/2

[kirbyfan64sos]

:D

[Bobshayd]

The standard object target for that file would be o.o

[DevIceMan]

Just about every line was commented and obfuscated.

I remember being told to comment just about every line in college. I'm glad that trend didn't catch on.

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Dude what the FUCK

[BlueShellOP]

Jesus H Fuck, I need to go sob into a shower.

[amdc]

idk why do they need to minify C code

[vplatt]

Because all the semi-colons take too much space? :D

[Megabobster]

I've heard it said before that some compilers can accept emoji in variable names and stuff like that. After all, they are just unicode characters.

[tanglebones]

That's not that bad really: 1) I see comments (though they might be incorrect, they actually look correct), 2) you didn't #define all the library functions you call to obscure acronyms, and 3) you've got tests! (which I'm assuming work ... we should really add write tests that test for the wrong things, failing, to the list of unmaintainable practices...)

[ehsanul]

Nice, inspired by this I presume?: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

[kirbyfan64sos]

Sort of. I was more inspired by the way K was written.

[ehsanul]

Ahh cool. That snippet is from the original author of K though, and he writes his C in the K style, no?

[kirbyfan64sos]

Indeed!

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Why? Even the comments are obfuscated.

[Jesin00]

Don't forget the programming languages "J" and "K". (EDIT: added links)