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Well, I once worked on a Web App that was written in PL/SQL, that produced HTML. Every variable was named v1, v378, vT31 (yeah no order), and the whole app was in 3 procedures each 80,000 lines of code, AWFUL AWFUL CODE. Honestly the horrors. Stuff like:

   if condition
      do x
   else
      do x
I worked on it for a month and it felt like years.


That's nothing. I had to fix someone else's program once. It was written in PERL.




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