just wanted to say that I have seen this happen in my current company and so much so that certain portions of code basically look like boost headers. many folks

just wanted to say that I have seen this happen in my current company and so much so that certain portions of code basically look like boost headers. many folks dont want to touch that code so they end up duplicating functionality with slight change because that one minor change would take a life of itself. in my previous company I have seen this happen (to a less extent) as a way of marking territory since such speghetti code sans detailed documentation basically means nobody else will touch it.