>>>Just curious who you mean by "you".
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>Figure of speech describing the LAMP dudes who came in and cleaned the place up. Nobody here afaik.

Just like many developers have done over their careers, I've cleaned up a ton of crap. Years ago I inherited some horribly inefficient database code that took about 14 hours to run a job. Stayed at the office one evening for a few hours and rewrote it to generate the same results in 15 minutes. People at the office thought I was a hero. Truth was, I really wasn't...the person before me just didn't have a clue.

Point is - sometimes there are big motivating factors when the original version is a piece of garbage.