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1. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
refuctoring

    Taking a well-designed piece of code and,
   through a series of small, reversible changes, making it
   completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself.  The term is
   a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason
   Gorman in a pub in 2002.

   Refuctoring techniques include:

   Using Pig Latin as a naming convention.

   Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase
   the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value
   of zero").

   Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module.

   Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation.

   Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to
   other code and documents that reference other documents.

   Rainy Day Module -  writing spare code just in case somebody needs
   it later.

   <Waterfall 2006 presentation>.

   (2013-12-01)


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