Sure, it just depends. Quite often, I've found that modifying someone elses code...

dusklight · on Jan 13, 2009

the difficulty of modifying somebody else's code is proportional to your own programming skill.

axod · on Jan 13, 2009

Yeah I'm not sure that's actually true :)

Would you rather build a porche, or try to convert a clapped out old volvo into a porche?

Tidying up rubbish, bad architecture choices, stupid coupling etc isn't fun. It's twice the work - fixing all the stuff they did stupidly, and then implementing it how it should be done.