The /prog/matic programmer

ANyways, so... I was reading The Pragmatic Programmer [1] and it occurred to me that we should probably boil these principles down for the novices amongst us. ITT things you want to carve into your colleagues' faces.

* KEEP IT FUCKING SIMPLE, MOTHERFUCKER!
* You're code is not ``clever'', it is autistic.
* Code is /not/ poetry or art. Go away! Fuck your OCD.
* This shit has been solved a thousand times over.
* You do not need to design with the latest and greatest in gang-of-four approved OOP design patterns, using infinitely scalable NoSQL solutions in hip new languages that compile down to JavaScript (srsly WTF?!), just to create a CRUD application.
* Not everyone gets off on code, some of us just want to make a living doing the least amount of effort that is required to deliver a consistent quality for an extended period of time.

I swear by god if I see one more AbstractControllerFactoryInterface

[1] http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer, easily found online.

>>49
I have not read K&R because I do not have one. But stdio.h says int putchar(int) and int getchar(), that is why they are being pedantic I guess. Anyway I do not know how could char be wrong, since char is signed, ASCII uses only 127 values and EOF == (char)EOF.

>>51
Fuck you copycat, murderer, you tried to be ``clever'' but just introduced a bug and ruined my code.