Hindsight is always 20/20. It's difficult to judge a piece of code after the fact. The quality of the code, including maintainability, is a result of various

Hindsight is always 20/20. It's difficult to judge a piece of code after the fact. The quality of the code, including maintainability, is a result of various trade-offs. We don't know what compromises the developer was making at the time. We don't know what was the highest priority at the time. May be they were short of money and working code however shitty produced at the shortest amount of time was the most important. Suck to be the guy doing the maintenance but if there's no working product, there would be no maintenance. We programmers have a ugly tendency to judge less than stellar codes written by others. It made us feel superior to pick apart mistakes others have made. The fact is software development is a series of technical and non-technical trade-offs. I certainly had fell in the same trap before. These days I just appreciate they can ship a working product and get it off the ground.