"This really strikes a nerve because in 40 years of programming, most of my problems have not been with building code myself, but with trying to figure out what

"This really strikes a nerve because in 40 years of programming, most of my problems have not been with building code myself, but with trying to figure out what my predecessor had written. I bet I've wasted 20 years of my life refactoring the crap of others who would have benefited greatly by reading posts like this one first." I also curse a lot about code my predecessors have written but I bet my successors will curse at my code too :-)