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				Yeahhh... I'm just in that process too at the minute. It's not terrible, but it's definitely not good.
 
 Usually method length is a fucking red flag... "Oh your method is 1100 lines of spaghetti? That's fine, pay me"
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				@filthyranter that's a good thing, fname and lname aren't great variable names... They can just be scrapped 😄
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				 hell164618yI made a variable that is an acronym for "mother fucker" while I was in a rant state and it actually worked ... Been in prod for 2 years now... hell164618yI made a variable that is an acronym for "mother fucker" while I was in a rant state and it actually worked ... Been in prod for 2 years now...
 
 Every time I see someone editing that piece of code I laught and cry inside because you can see the level of code we have around here...
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				I like to name my variables $fn and $ln. Saves space. My code is way less lines.
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				@jamescodesthing exactly, method length and clone coverage (amount of copy-D code) say a lot about the quality of a system IMHO









That moment you realize the code you inherited at the new job may be a fucking mess....
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