I inherited an enterprise-critical application in, I kid you not, Autohotkey. 5000 actual lines of it, none of them containing any sanity whatsoever. Apparentl

I inherited an enterprise-critical application in, I kid you not, Autohotkey. 5000 actual lines of it, none of them containing any sanity whatsoever. Apparently, some random end user decided to automate a job, other people liked, and it grew all kinds of unholy features. So after one very visible crash too many, the corporate overlords decided it was critical enough for IT to take over. By the time I got it, most of it was calls to Win32 functions, and almost nothing was using any functionality Autohotkey was any good at. I didn't even dare talk about it on the Autohotkey fora at the time, because I was sure the developers themselves would consider me an insane idiot and/or hit me with an axe. I migrated it to another language the day I understood it well enough. One of the great truths of ICT is: Anything can survive production if someone decides to bless it with insane amounts of time and money.