How to Write Unmaintainable Code

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<i>SQL Aliasing<p>Alias table names to one or two letters. Better still alias them to the names of other unrelated existing tables. </i><p>Hmmm - it appears that the person I replaced has already been here before.

Some of these techniques were used in <a href="http://www.michielovertoom.com/python/ugly-python/" rel="nofollow">http://www.michielovertoom.com/python/ugly-python/</a>