Apart from the issue that we're talking about an introductory CS course, the greater problem remains that you'll only load up "technical debt", which may well l

Apart from the issue that we're talking about an introductory CS course, the greater problem remains that you'll only load up "technical debt", which may well lead to problems later on. Michael O.Church briefly talks about this in his article on startup culture: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-your-time-in-crappy-startup-jobs/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-yo... Also, see the recent HN post, "Ask HN: I just inherited 700K+ lines of bad PHP. Advice?": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4557919 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4557919 Lastly, in my article I highlight Open Office, which still has comments in German in its source code.