Ditto. Messy code is difficult to maintain. You are incurring a penalty whenever someone needs to go in and make changes, a situation that is made all the wor

Ditto. Messy code is difficult to maintain. You are incurring a penalty whenever someone needs to go in and make changes, a situation that is made all the worse when it is someone new. Perhaps my narrow programmer's mind can't appreciate the difference, but it sounds like technical debt to me.