This is usually true but I’ve recently been introduced to a legacy codebase which is so bad it can hardly be modified. Mixed tabs and spaces, sometimes one spa

This is usually true but I’ve recently been introduced to a legacy codebase which is so bad it can hardly be modified. Mixed tabs and spaces, sometimes one space indentation or no indentation at all, 1000+ line Java methods, meaningless variable names, no comments or documentation. SQL transactions aren’t used, the database is just put into a bad state and hopefully the user finishes what they’re doing so it doesn’t stay that way. That’s just the server. The UI is just as bad and based on Flash (but compiled to HTML5 now)