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Top 10 things that annoy Programmers

Posted in Programming. on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 by dale
Apr 03

“Programmers all have their pet peeves.  Whether it’s scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, we’ve come to accept that there are certain nuisances that come with our line of work. ”

My personal favourite peeve from the list is No 3. Vagueness!

The full list after the break or check out the Source!

10.  Comments that explain the “how” but not the “why”
9.  Interruptions
8.  Scope creep
7.  Management that doesn’t understand programming
6.  Documenting our applications
5.  Applications without documentation
4.  Hardware
3.  Vagueness
2.  Other programmers
1.  Their own code, 6 months later

3 Comments

  1. Wezz on April 3rd, 2009

    I can relate, vagueness definitely pisses and I cant even look at my code 6 months later. What I’m confused about though is scope creep, I always thought it was that dodgy dude you always see at the CNA checking out the pornos in broad daylight.

  2. dale on April 6th, 2009

    Hahahaha, brilliant Wez.

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