Admittedly, none of the code I work with on a regular basis is older than ~4 years, but some of that has changed hands several times (hot potato project nobody

Admittedly, none of the code I work with on a regular basis is older than ~4 years, but some of that has changed hands several times (hot potato project nobody wants to own), and actually still runs on Java 1.4. I suppose I'm willing to accept that I've been lucky though, and god help anyone whose code has the sorts of problems I wrote off as being unacceptable.