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It's really hard to write unreadable crap in Java. Even if you do, there's automated refactoring to fix it. That's the thing about Java. It makes it really h
by narrator 13y ago
It's really hard to write unreadable crap in Java. Even if you do, there's automated refactoring to fix it. That's the thing about Java. It makes it really hard for clever bad programmers to do a lot of damage to a project. With Perl the sky's the limit.
- einhverfr 13y agoAs long as function and variable names are arbitrary, you can write code that appears to do one thing and does something else. Far more damage can be done that way than by straight obfuscation.
- kamaal 13y ago>>It's really hard to write unreadable crap in Java. I work on legacy Java code bases every day, where I see thousands of lines of code all to just simply set and read variables. I'm not sure how that's even remotely described as readable.
- rat87 13y agoIt's readable and easily followed spaghetti code it just obscures what the programs means with unnecessary details.
- collyw 13y agoPeople say the same about Python, but it is completely possible. Deeply nested hashes with no comments explaining the structure. Variable names such as 'Indexes' and 'indexes' in the same function. I have had to rewrite code like that.