The opening paragraph would imply the issues are the product of non-professional developers, and by implication, that professional developers create software th

The opening paragraph would imply the issues are the product of non-professional developers, and by implication, that professional developers create software that doesn't have those issues. Spend enough time working on several projects with several teams and you'll quickly discover that just isn't true. Things like "the while loop of death" seem relatively tame to what you'll regularly see in the wild.