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Comment by sillysaurusx

But that just sounds like regular big company codebases. I see no difference.

At Scottrade, I was horrified to find a 5k or 10k line Date C++ class. They'd copy paste functions to handle each leap year individually. The function names themselves contained the specific year.

They also yelled at me for downloading the source code to `touch`.

It was nice to get to see the crazy side of software. Everyone was deadpan serious about it too.

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