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by KnightWhoSaysNi 5446 days ago
I agree with you that WordPress and Drupal aren't examples of great code. It has to do with the fact that CMSes take a long time to gain traction and acquire a true community, and WordPress and Drupal were started at a time when MVC was almost unknown in the web community. By the time they got traction, the oldest code in the codebase was, well, ugly. Things that have been added to WordPress and Drupal recently are usually okay code-wise.