If he couldn't do it in 300 lines of Python, C++, or bash, he was incompetent and should have been reassigned. At best. 7500 lines for that is not an asset, it

If he couldn't do it in 300 lines of Python, C++, or bash, he was incompetent and should have been reassigned. At best. 7500 lines for that is not an asset, it is a liability, regardless of language. At least while he was writing his 7500 lines of bad code, he wasn't doing any other damage. You can throw it out and get somebody else to write a good one in a week.