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    I see one controversy in your definition of the point in question: ...in less time that you would need to rewrite everything from scratch, which implies those who are going to rewrite the project are good enough, or at least better than those who created the mess in the first place ;) Commented May 5, 2011 at 10:48
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    I think one reason there's no agreed on name is that it depends on who is looking at the code. What appears hopelessly complex or unmaintainable to one developer can appear pretty reasonable to another. In severe cases, I just compile into a DLL with an "ms" prefix and say it came from Microsoft. Commented May 18, 2011 at 21:42
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    Maybe this would do: Technical Debt Event Horizon Commented May 19, 2011 at 0:55