>Howdy Victor,
>
>>For me this simply depends on the code in question. If you have 100,000 of lines of code
>>and have a few things in it that need to be fixed, odds are its going to take less time
>>to fix their code than to rewrite something that big.
>
>This is pretty much the situation, Victor, and the daunting task at hand is to
>understand a lot of code in a very short period of time. Our clients want this
>stuff yesterday :^). Actually, I think all clients want fixes and new features
>yesterday, and I truly believe that this is universal :^)

Yeah I've delt with the same situation not to long ago myself. In my case the code was written by 5 or 6 different developers, all of which had their own programming styles that were very different from the others - making the task even more of a pain.
Other times I've had to deal with this I've been lucky enough that it was just one persons code, and I simply tried to conform to their standards, so at least the code was consistant (so hopefully the guy that came along behind me wouldn't have a bigger mess....)


>>I would think that every programmer would rather write his own stuff his own way
>>though - its more fun that way!
>
>Yep. The art of creation! :^)
>
>Randall