What a fantastic piece. Check the bottom for the sign-off: "People paid no attention when I harped about how to write __maintainable code. I found people were m

What a fantastic piece. Check the bottom for the sign-off: "People paid no attention when I harped about how to write __maintainable code. I found people were more receptive hearing all the goofy things people often do to muck it up." You can tell that he's not talking about this from a theoretical point of view and that the majority of those samples were encountered in real life code. I've seen a couple of them myself over the years (and I've been guilty of at least a few, especially in the beginning). To be able to compile such a vast set of examples must point to a very colorful career. The best part of the whole thing is that you can read it two ways, invert every line in meaning and you get a pretty good naming conventions and coding standards guide.