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Reuse Names
Wherever the rules of the language permit, give classes, constructors, methods, member variables, parameters and local variables the same names. For extrapoints, reuse local variable names inside {} blocks. The goal is to force the maintenance programmer to carefully examine the scope of every instance. In particular, in Java, make ordinary methods masquerade as constructors.

Dummy Interfaces
Write an empty interface called something like "WrittenByMe", and make all of your classes implement it. Then, write wrapper classes for any ofJava's built-in classes that you use. The idea is to make sure that every single object in your program implements this interface. Finally, write all methods so that both their arguments and return types are WrittenByMe. This makes it nearly impossible to figure out what some methods do, and introduces all sorts of entertaining casting requirements. For a further extension, have each team member have his/her own personal interface (e.g., WrittenByJoe); any class worked on by a programmer gets to implement his/her interface. You can then arbitrary refer to objects by any one of a large number of meaningless interfaces!

Jude the Obscure
Always look for the most obscure way to do common tasks. For example, instead of using arrays to convert an integer to the corresponding string, use code like this:

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char *p;
switch (n)
{
   case 1:
      p = "one";
      if (0)
   case 2:
      p = "two";
      if (0)
   case 3:
      p = "three";
      printf("%s", p);
      break;
}

lemure64 ha scritto:Ma tendo a commentare pochissimo e dopo una settimana mi scordo completamente quello che ho fatto.

lemure64 ha scritto:A me basta quello che scrivo io con l'intento di scrivere al meglio; nomi autoesplicativi, incolonnamento rigorosissimo, amore per l'ordine...

brabus ha scritto:Giuro, a tratti mi si accapponava la pelle della nuca. Terribile.

Adoro.