====== Coding horrors ====== * Subsetting data and using the wrong indices * Read in files with numerical names in the wrong sort order (1,11,110,...) * Duplicated code * Duplicated code where one duplication is a little bit different than the other * Detecting the correct text coding of a file * Global variables * Script files with names which have absolutely nothing to do with their content * Variable names which have absolutely nothing to do with their purpose * Quick modifications of recursive functions * Time zones * Reading/Writing contents of PDF files * Assuming that someone will create required system setup that you need in your code (do it yourself!) * ... ====== Coding hints ====== * Improve CPP performance by avoiding the heap