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The Seven Deadly Sins of Programmers

  • Artigo

A while back, I made an offhand comment about something being one of the seven deadly sins of programmers (/programming/developers/software engineering/coding/...).

At the time, I really didn't have 7 things in mind, but after a little thought, I came up with what I think is a good list.

But before I write the first entry, I'd like you to spend 5 minutes and write down your list of deadly programmer sins. Though 7 is the canonical number of sins, your list can have any number of items. After I've gone through my list, I'll do another post where you can share your list.

[Update: Sorry I wasn't clearer. Write your list down, and then post it when I'm finished. Or post it now on your own blog if you'd like]

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    PingBack from http://www.johnmeyer.net/blog/index.php/2006/05/16/pet-peeves-of-programming/
  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2006
    Premature optimization
    Trusting external data (user input in particular)
    Overengineering
    Carelessness/hackiness
    Absence of testing
    Absence of documentation
    Anti-test-driven development (developing huge chunks of functionality and only testing in the end)
  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2006
     Introduction
     
       Recently, Eric Gunnerson made a post
       in his blog with the idea of "the seven...
  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2006
    When I see a blog post or article that I want to read, investigate, follow up on, etc, I jot it down...
  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2009
    PingBack from http://insomniacuresite.info/story.php?id=400