Responses to Roedy’s Unmaintainable Code Essay  Responses to Roedy’s Unmaintainable Code Essay

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Here is a sampling of the email I received in response to my essay on how to write unmaintainable code. There is even more feedback at the Unmaintainable Code Blog. My comments are shown in green.. You can email your comments to me atemail feedback to Roedy Green or Canadian Mind Products. Please tell me if you don’t want your comments posted publicly.

Title Author Email Date
Obscure Code anononymous email address withheld 2000-09-01
Snafucated Code Frank Klemm pfk@fuchs.offl.uni-jena.de 2000-09-10
Comment Malice Stephen Griswold griswold@csee.wvu.edu 2000-09-26
Rethrow Exceptions Chris Dailey cdailey@iknowledgeinc.com 2000-09-26
Lollo Hans Andersson hans.andersson@softronic.se 2000-09-26
Recursion Arjen Markus arjen.markus@wldelft.nl 2000-10-04
Double Double Elie Hirschman hirschmane@econnergy.com 2000-10-06
Overload Jonathan Anderson andersjl@letu.edu 2000-10-09
Tzyj John Baumgart baumgart@chicagonet.net 2000-10-29
Unportable Code Todd X Zimnoch toddx.zimnoch@intel.com 2000-10-30
Italian Mike Nakagawa mike_nakagawa@agilent.com 2000-11-02
Constant Pointers Thomas Uebermeirer thomas@uebermeier.de 2000-11-06
Union Dave Doolin doolin@cs.utk.edu 2000-11-06
Indent Petter Nilsen pni@rubicon.no 2000-11-10
Preprocessor Quinn “The Eskimo!” eskimo1@apple.com 2000-11-21
Sneaky Swap kAbaIaKH kabaiakh@free.fr 2005-03-09
closure Michal Kočárek michal.kocarek@brainbox.cz 2005-03-23
Spell Checker Jack Swindell jack.swindell@gmail.com 2005-03-23
I am quite a bit behind in formatting and publishing the feedback. I have 167 unmaintainable code feedback emails outstanding. Last revised/verified: 2009-04-07
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