Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work? | Hacker News

I think I've broken my own record with this one ~2500 lines of incoherent JavaScript/C#. Works though. Oracle Database 12.2.It is close to 25 million lines of C code. What an unimaginable horror! You can't change a single line of code in the product without breaking 1000s of existing tests. Generations of programmers have worked on that code under difficult deadlines and filled the code with all k

[yyamano]

“Oracle Database 12.2.It is close to 25 million lines of C code.”

[mattn]

今までみたコードの中で一番酷かった物を上げろという Ask HN に「Oracle 12.2 だ」と元社員がコメント。