The story of Max, a real programmer

I suppose everybody knows this is a riff on "The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer" (1983), but I'm posting the link to the classic story here just in case: https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

(Actually, the reworked story in free verse style, which is its most popular form)

TFA is cute but it kinda misses the point, because the original Mel didn't write code that was simple or easy to understand. It was simple to him, and arguably there was some elegance to it once you understood it, but unlike the PHP from the updated story, Mel's code was machine code, really hard to understand or modify, and the design was all in his mind.

Mel would also scoff at PHP.