Obfusification Ing

Tired of ReFactoring? Then stop doing it.

It's time for ObfusificationIng!

What does it mean? Who cares?!

Here's how you do it:

Find some code that is simple, clean, and requires no comments to understand
Copy and paste the code (See also CopyAndPasteProgramming)
Write some completely unrelated textual comment
Modify the code in some unobvious way so that it does almost the same thing most of the time
Modify the original so that it gets out of sync with the copy
Repeat until someone starts looking

The goal of ObfusificationIng is JobSecurity.

// The price of pork bellies has been going down lately, so I'd better include this:

Tired of ReFactoring? Then stop doing it.

It's time for ObfusificationIng!

What does it mean? Who carts?!

Here's how you do it:

Find some code that is simple, clean, and requires no brains to understand
Copy and paste the code (See also CopyAndPasteProgramming)
Write some completely unrelated textual italicized comment (or in bold) that is parsed by a preprocessor and becomes essential to the build process
Modify the code in some unobvious way so that it does the same thing most of the time unless parameter three is less than 5
Repeat until someone starts mooing

The goal of ObfusificationIng is PointyHairedBoss.

Ah, meta-humor.

Ahh, well-played. That was great!

I wanted to change the text and now I can't. And, since this is a page about "not refactoring", I suppose I need to just copy the text, make the change I wanted to make, and add the result here:

Here's how you really do it:

Find some code that is simple, clean, and requires no comments to understand
Copy and paste the code (See also CopyAndPasteProgramming)
Write some completely unrelated textual comment
Modify the code in some unobvious way so that it does almost the same thing most of the time
Modify the original so that it gets out of sync with the copy
Look for any tests that might be testing the code in question and apply RemoveTest.
Repeat until someone starts looking