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Did you tell the developers of 10 years ago that? I deal with their surviving shit daily, in mission-critical software, even. Gone in a year? Hah! I wish!

Not just naming conventions, or assignments in if-clauses, but files there the first indentation level is three spaces, and the rest are all four...

P.S.: And because it's that old, the change-history of a given line can be very important, so it's too late to mass-reformat everything. So you either make the file uglier by mixing "standards", or you have to hand-tweak all your changes to match.



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