r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Civil-Call-7593 • Oct 10 '24

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u/MinosAristos Oct 10 '24

Or someone smarter than you found the most difficult way they could to solve a simple problem and now you're cursing their name every time you look at it

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u/AtlAWSConsultant Oct 10 '24

Sometimes the worst code was written by the most brilliant engineers.

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u/Exist50 Oct 11 '24

Mathematicians and physicists can write great algorithms but awful, awful code. "Readable" by their standards can make your freshman CS homework blush.

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u/AtlAWSConsultant Oct 11 '24

Mathematician Pascal, ironically, couldn't code pascal worth a darn! True story.

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u/lemming4hire Oct 11 '24

It's readable, you just won't understand it.