“Crap” is in the eye of the beholder. It is an attitude problem more than a code problem. The worst developers I have ever worked with thought that everything w

“Crap” is in the eye of the beholder. It is an attitude problem more than a code problem. The worst developers I have ever worked with thought that everything was crap. Either because they were extremely arrogant, and code that wasn’t done their way was automatically “crap”, or because they had real trouble understanding code written by other developers, no matter how skilled and experienced those developers were. The smartest developers I have ever worked with can jump into any code base, written in any style, and be productive fast. They might make fun of some parts of the code, but they know there are often good historical reasons why the code was done that way, and they will be the first to admit that they themselves probably have done stuff like that in the past. So in conclusion, if you think all code is crap, your attitude might be the problem more than the code.