Why? Why?!! WHY!!!!

[Jeremy Hutchinson]

I've been rewriting a system that was originally written in VBScript. Yes, that's 5000+ lines of VBScript with no white space, and no comments. That alone has had me crying for weeks/months, but this pushed me over the edge: At one point in the application we generate documents, to do so we pass a piece of XML to a third party utility that does a Word Merge (or whatever kids are calling it these days). Rather than pass each piece of data as a separate element they are doing some of the formatting in the VBScript. Instead of passing John Smith 1/1/1970 They are passing: John Smith {they insert a vbtab} 1/1/1970 I can't change the document template, so for now I have to reproduce this horrible code in .Net. I'm going to spend a few hours in the shower tonight crying and trying to scrub off that dirty feeling...

[Sundance Kid]

Ouch! I Hate having a dependency system that takes data in a certain way. You have to continue using the "bad" code!

[Corinna John]

Find out who wrote the VBScript and let him clean your house!

This statement is false.

[VickyC]

Do you get paid for the job?

[Jeremy Hutchinson]

Is there any other kind of job?

[Mycroft Holmes]

Do you work for nothing? It is assumed that the majority of us work for a living and get paid for doing the work. This codeing justly deserves to be written up in the horrors forum.