Code Monkeys

I'm working on a new project as of today and my collaborators sent some source code written by a software engineer that had been left largely to his own devices for a year working on this project.

The engineer in question appears to have an issue with portability. The code was written in Java, which _should_ make it pretty portable, yes? No. They decided to write it so it only works with a specific plugin, that they have written, for a specific IDE.

I'm starting to work through the code now. I have absolutely no plans to put any more effort into making their code work. It has now become an extraction exercise so I can write my own project, using their code as a "how to". For a start it's supposed to be for a robot controller - so why they wrote it in one of the world's slowest languages I'll never know!