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Here is an email I received in response to my essay on how to write unmaintainable code.

Indent : Petter Nilsen : pni@rubicon.no : 2000-11-10

Here’s another one for the excellent unmaintainable code page.

Never use {} in an if() statement if you can avoid it, and make sure the line after the if() statement has the wrong indentation. Any maintainer who tries to figure out if the indentation is a bug in the if() statement or just a wrong indentation will come up short.

if ( fSomeStatement )
  CallFunction();
  CallFunction2();
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