[jnash]

You have to be really arrogant to assume that you know within 5 minutes of looking at somebody else's code that you know how to do it "better".

I am sure you know how to do it differently, and more like how you prefer to do it, but that is not the same thing at all.

Legacy software is successful software. You are never asked to maintain failed software. Only software that is successfully generating $ years after it was originally developed.

So be humble. Show a bit of respect. And don't automatically assume that you are some super genius who knows how to do everything better.

And remember that other equally unenlightened developers will look at your code and go WTF and complain about how crap your code is. Don't be like them.