[ale] Wandering into the OT tar pit

[Michael B. Trausch]

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Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>> Legacy code with no documentation is a nightmare of "push it down here
>> and it comes right back up over there!"
> 
> Been there, done that.  It's the nightmare of taking over someone else's 
>   code.
> 

Heh.

It doesn't even have to be "legacy" code... I am working with a project
right now that is a royal mess.  (Even worse then some of the systems at
AT&T that were falling apart when I left not terribly long ago...)

*shrugs*.

Of course, it's a start up project, but the person that was writing it
knows next to nothing about actual programming, and wrote something sort
of resembling MS-DOS and Windows 9x in quality (kludge on top of kludge,
on top of nasty kludge, until it started working like sludge...)

*shudders*.

It *is* getting cleaned up, because I *can't* code like that.
Unfortunately, that's taking most of my time.  And it's frustrating.
Anyway, that's all.  :)

	Later,
	Mike
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