Tired of
ReFactoring? Then stop doing it.
It's time for
ObfusificationIng!
What does it mean? Who cares?!
Here's how you do it:
- Find some code that is simple, clean, and requires no comments to understand
- Copy and paste the code (See also CopyAndPasteProgramming)
- Write some completely unrelated textual comment
- Modify the code in some unobvious way so that it does almost the same thing most of the time
- Modify the original so that it gets out of sync with the copy
- Repeat until someone starts looking
The goal of
ObfusificationIng is
JobSecurity.
// The price of pork bellies has been going down lately, so I'd better include this:
Tired of
ReFactoring? Then stop doing it.
It's time for
ObfusificationIng!
What does it mean? Who carts?!
Here's how you do it:
- Find some code that is simple, clean, and requires no brains to understand
- Copy and paste the code (See also CopyAndPasteProgramming)
- Write some completely unrelated textual italicized comment (or in bold) that is parsed by a preprocessor and becomes essential to the build process
- Modify the code in some unobvious way so that it does the same thing most of the time unless parameter three is less than 5
- Repeat until someone starts mooing
The goal of
ObfusificationIng is
PointyHairedBoss.
Ah, meta-humor.
Ahh, well-played. That was great!
I wanted to change the text and now I can't. And, since this is a page about "not refactoring", I suppose I need to just copy the text, make the change I wanted to make, and add the result here:
Here's how you
really do it:
- Find some code that is simple, clean, and requires no comments to understand
- Copy and paste the code (See also CopyAndPasteProgramming)
- Write some completely unrelated textual comment
- Modify the code in some unobvious way so that it does almost the same thing most of the time
- Modify the original so that it gets out of sync with the copy
- Look for any tests that might be testing the code in question and apply RemoveTest.
- Repeat until someone starts looking
See also
WorryDrivenDevelopment.
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