Other Developers Code

[Err]

I know part of being a developer is reading other developers code, but when do you say "Nope, this is too messed up"?What kind of code will you not touch? Or will you still attempt at fixing something no matter how messed up it is?And what if you are being paid for this?

[thescientist]

i guess it depends on the state/nature of the code and the skill of the developer looking at it.

[justsomeguy]

I know part of being a developer is reading other developers code, but when do you say "Nope, this is too messed up"?What kind of code will you not touch?

Have you ever seen Cubecart? That's a pretty good example.

[Err]

Never seen Cubecart. But it's hard to imagine you not working on messed up code. You seem like the kind of person who can battle against anything difficult and win.

[ShadowMage]

You seem like the kind of person who can battle against anything difficult and win.

Now let's be careful. You might give him a big head.

[justsomeguy]

Well, we'll see about that, I'm once again the only programmer at the company I work at, all of the programming projects in-house are on my shoulders now, I've got 3 projects launching on Monday, and a schedule that apparently goes into August, assuming that no new work comes in the door and that no servers explode or whatever. So, I guess we'll see who wins that. I need a raise.