A legacy of conspiracy
Contrary to popular opinion, I have not been kidnapped, nor have I been hit on the head, nor have I started to seek that kind of job security.
I gave a talk about legacy code and refactoring, and I needed something concrete to talk about. Unfortunately, most legacy code is too intertwined to be able to extract out in order to talk about it in isolation. So I set out to write my own.
To all the people who assume that I don't live in the real world, or that I don't deal with legacy systems... well, I think that this code shows that I do know what is going out there.
And just to make it clear, no, I wouldn't write this type of code for any reason. Not for a spike or for a lark. But I think that this is a pretty good archeological fake, even if I say so myself.