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Obfuscation of source code is the practice of formatting the code to be difficult to understand. It also makes it difficult to support. Since source code development and support is a team effort, I would fire anyone that deliberately obfuscates their code. (After appropriate warning, of course.)

As an example of this team effort attitude, I was part of a team that wrote code for the IBM MainFrame. Policy was that code maintainers should use the style of the original author, so as to minimize future complication in support. Policy, also, was that new code be written in COBOL II, even though my manager knew I was a C/C++ Master, and we did have a C compiler, because if some of my code needed to be supported when I was not around, the number of people that understood COBOL II in a MainFrame environment was greater (at that time) then the number of people that knew C/C++.

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