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by collyw 4490 days ago
I had a nightmare of VB6 code to work on. Something like 3/4 of a million lines, and lots of deadlines to meet. No consideration given to quality - just have it working by friday. It was in the financial industry.

On more than one occasion you would write a subroutine to do something, then a month or two later, you would see someone had already written that same functionality.