Damn, it reminds me of one of the projects I worked on, a .NET Winforms project with about 2 MLOC.
It was the result of automatically porting a codebase written with a RAD system called Gupta Team Developer / SQLWindows[1]. The original language supported multiple inheritance and the converted code was a huge mess of tangled interfaces trying to reproduce that. The tool generated lots of duplicated code and some monster constructs like a static class with 140.000 lines of code, with all public methods.
I still weep for my colleagues who were left to tame that mess.
It was the result of automatically porting a codebase written with a RAD system called Gupta Team Developer / SQLWindows[1]. The original language supported multiple inheritance and the converted code was a huge mess of tangled interfaces trying to reproduce that. The tool generated lots of duplicated code and some monster constructs like a static class with 140.000 lines of code, with all public methods.
I still weep for my colleagues who were left to tame that mess.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_Technologies