Sorry the example isn't ugly enough for you guys, but I had to pick something reasonably generic. Sounds like we've all seen a lot worse, but most of the really

Sorry the example isn't ugly enough for you guys, but I had to pick something reasonably generic. Sounds like we've all seen a lot worse, but most of the really bad stuff I've seen could be easily identified as proprietary. That particular type of snippet was taken from a system that had a sick amount of duplication and some really "creative" use of arrays for sorting that took forever, when the sort could have simply been done with SQL in a fraction of the time.