How To Write Unmaintainable Code

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Roedy Green in his funny article "How To Write Unmaintainable Code" says: In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code. Then again, if you followed all these rules religiously, even you wouldn't be able to maintain the code!"

The funniest tips I found are these:

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Hello world!

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A "hello world" program is a computer program that prints out "Hello, world!" on a display device. It is used in many introductory tutorials for teaching a programming language and many students use it as their first programming experience in a language.

Wikipedia has a page that shows the hello world! program in about 200 programming languages. Here are the shortest and the longest hello world! program I found. The shortest is written in APL and the longest is written in Redcode:

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