Like most people, I've worked with some pretty ropey codebases over the years - in fact I'm big enough to admit that I've created or contributed to some too. However, I'm no longer phased by it in the way that I might have been 10 years ago. 'Legacy code' is merely a fact of life that as professionals, we have to accept - and dare I say it - embrace. It's not that I enjoy working with legacy code any more than the next guy, it's just that I have a good appreciation of how 'less than perfect' code is generated and a trusted bag of techniques for making it better.
