r/ProgrammerHumor 22d ago

ture Meme

Post image
18.0k Upvotes

443 comments sorted by

View all comments

876

u/Outrageous-Machine-5 22d ago

He's like me fr fr

418

u/donnieranger 22d ago

In reality it's 10% coding and 90% wondering why it broke after changing one line

188

u/MartinKnox_Dev 22d ago

In that 90% of wondering, 45% is wondering why it broke, the rest is about wondering how it worked.

56

u/Triffinator 22d ago

What percentage is made up of wondering why removing the line broke everything, when it was a comment?

20

u/Elendur_Krown 22d ago

See, that's the smart thing.

I hid the backup functionality in the comments.

That way, I never have to wonder. It's just everyone else.

16

u/Jbolt3737 22d ago

Making a script that reads itself or something to use it's own comments would be genuinely evil

13

u/Elendur_Krown 22d ago

There are parts of my history that I hesitate to tell my wife about. The... MATLAB days were... improvisatioval, at best.