Count me in on that Toadi. I'm a sub-sub-sub contractor on my current project and the code is nasty with globals and functions defined in required files that are used by each application, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason for this approach.

There is also a ton of duplicated code because it's a website with an adminsite and a public site and no code is shared between them. Eww.

Plus no strict, warnings, or taint. And I can't rewrite or fix it because I'm here to add new features ASAP because I'm "expensive".

It will never get rewritten or refactored because it "works fine" for the end-client.

Thankfully I'm not supposed to be here that long but I'm writing the worst Perl code of my life (and Perl is my first language!) in this job.

Enough venting for today, back to the grind!
Clayton aka "Tex"

In reply to Re: Re: Rewriting a large code base by clscott
in thread Rewriting a large code base by Ovid

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