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Ugly code is not generally an ethical issue. Ethics are another matter entirely, and it really depends on your own reputation and how you want to protect it -v

• mfukar 16y ago
  It is, because it's a direct conflict of interest between the one implementing the "ugly solution" and the ones who are later going to need to read it, debug it, refactor it, etc. Who are, in fact, most likely to be colleagues, in this context.