I get the premise of the article, but I think that you can quickly look at some code and determine if it passes the sniff test. I've been guilty of rewriting s

I get the premise of the article, but I think that you can quickly look at some code and determine if it passes the sniff test. I've been guilty of rewriting sections of code just b/c I didn't like the formatting and other minor annoyances, but then again, there is just general newbie or outsourced lazy, sloppy, spaghetti code. You can spot that in less than ten seconds and it truly does suck. Engineering is about integrating prior solutions to solve a problem. Many times that means the experience to know I can pull in a library and write 10 lines of code to solve a problem instead of hundreds....of bad lines.