This brought up some repressed memories. As part of the same argument, people were advocating for keeping executable code (VbScript) as well as HTML strings in

This brought up some repressed memories. As part of the same argument, people were advocating for keeping executable code (VbScript) as well as HTML strings in the database layer. The whole codebase was this Lovecraftian nightmare where I kept fearing I would go insane if I kept reading.