One of my favorite antipatterns: http://antipatterns.com/lavaflow.htm
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Young programmers horrified to discover how the software that's powering our world really works.

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I was 19 when I wrote this post, and working on that codebase gave me so much useful experience that I still draw on regularly
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Sounds like a great challenge!
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Makes me wonder if we could gain something by virtualizing the computer and running such code in emulation. Something a bit like a customizable valgrind. The biggest value of this code was in the logic and not in the (in)correct memory management or serialization routines.
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