On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was wondering what people think is the worst piece of code in the > entire Mozilla codebase. I'll leave the exact meanings of "worst" and > "piece of code" unspecified...
Thanks for the replies so far! I deliberately left this question vague to see what kind of responses people would give. But mostly I'm interested in code whose awfulness impacts users in a serious way. Ones where refactoring/rewriting efforts would be valuable. That excludes code that no longer exists :) With this in mind, a function that is hideous but non-buggy and doesn't cause maintenance problems (e.g. because the hideousness doesn't leak too far) wouldn't qualify as bad. In comparison, a sub-system with frequent subtle correctness issues would be very bad. So I'd be interested in suggestions along these lines. Feel free to email me privately if you prefer. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
