A mish-mash of coding conventions is understandable, given the fact that coding standards may not exist in the first place, or can change over time, etc. Long

A mish-mash of coding conventions is understandable, given the fact that coding standards may not exist in the first place, or can change over time, etc. Long functions which have grown over time are also understandable, given the realities of changing requirements and such. Thousands of lines of uncommented code, however, are not understandable... in the sympathetic sense, or literally.