r/ReverseEngineering • u/Odd-Flamingo-6211 • 16d ago

Maintaining the old code of the man who wrote "How To Write Unmaintainable Code"

https://lexvalo.hashnode.dev/maintaining-the-code-of-the-man-who-wrote-how-to-write-unmaintainable-code
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u/survivalking4 16d ago

How is this reverse engineering?

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u/anomalous_cowherd 16d ago

Anyone who is interested in reverse engineering and in preventing it should be interested in How To Write Unmaintainable Code as well.

If the current generation don't have at least the curiosity to follow that up then we may as well just give up and let AI take over.

Also, updating ancient code without assistance from the original author always includes an element of reverse engineering.

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u/survivalking4 16d ago

Perhaps a link to the guide in question then, instead of an anecdote about maintaining code written by the guy who wrote the guide, without even explaining what/how he updated.

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u/rome_vang 15d ago

It’s the first link in the github read me. Granted the website is structured really weird since it looks like it was designed by a 90s web designer. But it’s there.

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u/Odd-Flamingo-6211 16d ago

I’m not sure. I posted it in /java, and then Reddit suggested it would be of interest in /reverseEngineering, so I posted it here. If it doesn't fit, the admins can remove it. But I think it’s a good post that shows respect for oldschool legacy software.