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>>I can't even make the analogy because nobody designs things as programmers do. ;)
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>Especially bad programmers.
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>I'm maintaining an app written for us off-shore. At first glance it looks very modular. Sererate data layer, BizObz, UI classes etc. After digging into it, it is full of 2000 line subs, cut and paste code, etc. They evidently never heard of inheritance or interfaces.
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>DotNet programmers laugh about the naming conventions many VFP programmers use, but when I am in the middle of a 1000 line sub it would be really nice to look at a var and know if it was passed in as a param, a local variable, a class variable, etc. Arrrgh!!! Fixed a bug yesterday where a class variable was used 41 times as a counter in different contexts. It's a miracle this thing works at all.
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>Sorry for the rant :(

No problem. That seems to be the norm. :(