Another Sort of Defensive Programming

[l33tminion]

From today's hacker talk and, independently, from here:

Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Good advice.

Comments

[chiaki777.livejournal.com]

It's true, you can do so much to just piss off future programmers....

This is the same with newspaper layouts... Don't make them so they work when you did it, make them so that people can go back and see what you did there.... Bleh....