I once worked on porting code for a several million line cobol application into Java. My part was a truly herculean set of complex business process (maybe 500kl

I once worked on porting code for a several million line cobol application into Java. My part was a truly herculean set of complex business process (maybe 500kloc) and this task would've been damn near impossible if it wasn't for the fact that their code was immaculately consistent.