[sidcool]

I feel your pain. Only difference in my case was, those layers of crap (mostly Java) were written by a monkey I thought I knew very well (myself).

My experience taught me that we sometimes tend to be obsessed with code aesthetics, way beyond a healthy reverence that any code deserves. I have learnt to forgive myself of the past coding mistakes and now I try to journal them. I hope you get the strength to forgive those other developers.