> These are the people who are still writing bloated 500-line functions in new code, giving me blank looks when I mention refactoring at the code review, and ap

> These are the people who are still writing bloated 500-line functions in new code, giving me blank looks when I mention refactoring at the code review, and approving said functions anyway. The problem with these people is not that they haven't kept up to date with modern practices (half of which are probably cyclical anyway). The problem is they never learned any best practices. People in 1998 knew not to write 500 line functions.