Good point. I've worked at 8 places in a 15 year career and have never seen a good code base. I've seen lots of clever code and some spots where the code quali

Good point. I've worked at 8 places in a 15 year career and have never seen a good code base. I've seen lots of clever code and some spots where the code quality was good but tight, clean , efficient, un-bloated, well doc'd code with automated tests on a large scale: nah, nicht.