[lazyjones]

I don't know about "great code", just a lot of it, but I've done this for more than 12 years (mostly because we're not really successful at hiring the kind of people we want and need - blame it on the country and our Perl ecosystem), so it can work.

My opinion is that it's doable to some extent, but not satisfactory because you'll feel like you need to be doing much more of either of these things.