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To me what is difficult about programming is to deal with huge undocumented and badly written legacy code, and also understanding tons of frameworks and APIs. A
by yodsanklai 13y ago
To me what is difficult about programming is to deal with huge undocumented and badly written legacy code, and also understanding tons of frameworks and APIs. Algorithms are the easy part.
- abvdasker 13y agoYes. My company's CRM uses a single 2500-line Perl script to handle all of its licensing emails. The script was written by our current VP of engineering in 1998 when our CRM was still built on ActiveX. I started porting this code over to Ruby for our now Rails-based CRM and I am beginning to doubt I will ever finish.
- codygman 13y agohttp://xkcd.com/224/ http://xkcd.com/224/
- 3minus1 13y agoI really agree with this so hard. Especially web programming with multiple frameworks and plugins.