anyone have any interesting observations of programming/programmers ? i know of one example: some programmers like to make things a ton harder than they really have to be. on the game maker board i have seen tons of gml code for something that can be done with like 4 drag and drop blocks, or a way simpler code. likewise i have noticed this to be true in c++, where i look at example code, get a general idea of how it works, and sometimes i can think of a ton easyerway. you think this is because that particular programmer dident think of something simple or just wanted to challenge him/her self?

If something works, even if it shouldn't, don't touch it. :P

Then later b*tch about impossible to find bugs -_-

:lol: yeah i still havent learned to stay away from the first one.

another thing i have knoticed is everyone seems to have tons of code fragments, some they wrote, some from other people. not that there is anything wrong with that or anything

Each programmer grows into their own style. If you see something that you would have done differently, it's probably because the programmer thought about the problem that way but usually the code is revised later.

Of course once something works, programmers probably decide not to go back and make it more efficient. I do that sometimes because after coding something extensive, it's just frustrating to go dig in some section and make it better when you have other parts to work on.

I think it's more difficult to make something efficient. So I doubt anyone does something inefficiently just for the challenge.