I'm not sure you can ever adequately analyze the code in the amount of time needed to make a decision -- unless the code is less than say 20,000 lines. Any com

I'm not sure you can ever adequately analyze the code in the amount of time needed to make a decision -- unless the code is less than say 20,000 lines. Any company of reasonable size will have ugly code bases somewhere, someplace, hidden in the dark reaches that nobody wants to touch because it was written 5 years ago and no one who wrote it is around anymore.