Turns of phrase

Now, what would make someone think I don’t like the code I’ve been working with this week? Some of the quotes from my email, sent out to my boss and the two directors above her, may explain some of it…

However, I would emphatically NOT start doing this ‘til we’ve had a chance to do a proper rewrite of the upload stuff, and are in a situation where we’re confident that it’s stable, working, and doesn’t need a shitload of work every two weeks to sort things out. The current [piece of] code is NOT good enough, and needs to be kicked into the gutter to die quietly once this one is done.

We *can* write a nice stable piece of code for this, that will have all the things we want. We could still end up using [one section of] the old legacy code– I’d rather not, but the way it’s written at the moment it all has hooks all over the place, and is wired in like a suicide bomber: one extra piece, get it wrong, and it all goes kaboom. Mind you, that’s true for the rest of the old stuff too.

The current code is a hack, it’s butt-ugly, and deserves to be locked in the woodshed for ever more, the ugly kid we never want to see again. If we’re going to do this stuff, fine, but let’s at least start from a good place with it, rather than keeping on adding to the shitheap we’ve already got.

Nope, can’t think why they may have thought I didn’t like the stuff…