Oh I inherited a similar Perl/php/shell script mess a few years ago. A fun twist was that the codebase started off as a commercial groovy/grails application, an

Oh I inherited a similar Perl/php/shell script mess a few years ago. A fun twist was that the codebase started off as a commercial groovy/grails application, and had this Frankenstein thing surgically attached, reading and writing to the same database tables. Still have nightmares about it now.