Let's face it, all developers have written code in the past that they now regret. Along the way, most also develop a mental list of the most egregious bad development practice to avoid in the future. Eric Gunnerson, C# Community Coordinator at Microsoft, has posted his list of the Seven Deadliest Sins of Programming:
What's on your list?
- Excessive Coupling
- Inappropriately Clever Code
- Deferred Refactoring
- Premature Optimization
- Overuse of Virtual (C#) or Overridable (VB.NET)
- Overuse of Inheritance
- Premature Generalization
What's on your list?