>I have written bad code. I recently re-gained a former client. I looked at the code and I couldn't believe I wrote it. But I started thinking about the things that happened during the project and realized that I had suggested rewriting the code several times and ended up patching the code to meet some new and different business requirement.
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>So when I start reviewing other's code I do it only to determine the structure and I have long stop judging code because I don't know the circumstances.
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>Johnf

The recent project I was doing - showed some very poor lack of design. It was not a case of business need directing the design. Twenty lines of code to handle a simple rounding a figure to exclude the penny which Canada no longer has - is purely a lack of ability and knowledge on the part of the programmer.

A real programmer should write a small utility and reuse it. That thinking is very rare in my experience.