Tangentially, the weirdest coding practice I've seen was a company with a single PHP developer who didn't know what a function was. The entire company ran on a

Tangentially, the weirdest coding practice I've seen was a company with a single PHP developer who didn't know what a function was. The entire company ran on a 5000 line top-to-bottom script with a cyclomatic-complexity in the tens of thousands, and was executed by Windows Scheduler. At one point I counted controll structures nested 17 deep, ifs inside loops inside ifs inside loops, etc. Also, the one developer didn't use version control and was resistant to my attempting to teach him. I worked on the website though, didn't touch that script with a 10 foot pole.