So there's run-of-the-mill old code that's accumulated a lot of cruft, is hard to get acquainted with, and can be tedious to work with. But it works, and doesn'

So there's run-of-the-mill old code that's accumulated a lot of cruft, is hard to get acquainted with, and can be tedious to work with. But it works, and doesn't get replaced. Then there's old code that barely worked when it was new and is held together by duct tape. Often it's written in something antiquated like VB6 or COBOL and is very troublesome to replace. (Not that all VB6 or COBOL code is bad, mind you, but as soon as you get out of their problem domain things go downhill fast.) Then there's ColdFusion. -- (In all seriousness, I'm sure there's good ColdFusion code out there, but the stuff I've seen is like a weird mish-mash of all the bad parts of PHP with all the bad parts of ORMs and all the bad parts of XSLT.)