Programming is not an easy job

18.3.05

Reading the posts on The Daily WTF, you would know how poor we are.
The Meteorological Station In Hell
The Hotel (reservation system) From Hell


Comments:
Someone says it is a way to secure the job :P

Ever tried to maintain a program written in several ten thousands lines of codes without any comment nor documentation??? :)

I've also heard this rule before but I do not agree. I believe documentation in coding/ paper is very very important even the program is developed by yourself. No one can ensure he/she can remember every detail after days. But someone think the best documentation is the code itself, agree?
In the prevoius company, I had to maintain a trading plus accounting system without one piece of paper about its specification. I could not understand that messy program... and finally called the customer and asked him to teach me step by step how the program worked. So embarrassed!

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