You're right, eventually I did get the hang of the chunk of code and wasn't afraid of it. Lots of others in the team were however. Also, because of eXtreme Prog

You're right, eventually I did get the hang of the chunk of code and wasn't afraid of it. Lots of others in the team were however. Also, because of eXtreme Programming and pairing, I knew the C# and what it was doing in 2 weeks and was writing code, having never seen C# before. I had some C++ experience, but by the end of my 6 month internship wasn't comfortable with the "views code". Yes, it was high performance code that did black magic, but making it readable is halfway to being able to understand it. It worked and it was fast enough and did good stuff (ever try doing a vertical unicode editing view?).