Yeah, you aren't kidding. This particular project was a work of modern abstract art. Imagine a large C++ code base with that was written by people that knew J

Yeah, you aren't kidding. This particular project was a work of modern abstract art. Imagine a large C++ code base with that was written by people that knew Java, Delphi and maybe a little C but apparently no C++. It was a mess of manual memory management errors, re-implemented Delphi classes like TString instead of using C++ equivalents, etc. Why they decided to implement it in C++ instead of a language they knew I'll never understand. It took me about 2 months of continuous effort to replace all the C-isms, TStrings, XML config, etc with sane C++ equivalents. After I was done, it'd run for months with no issues whereas before you were lucky if it'd run for 2 days without it crashing. Needless to say, I felt accomplished because I didn't get paged in the middle of the night from the thing falling over all the time.