Summary by S. Isaac Dealey
Programmers will often argue the merits and flaws of syntax, style, methods and patterns heatedly, until it seems no stone is left un-turned, no crevice unexamined, no infinitive unsplit. Perhaps this is partly responsible for the seemingly universal constant that programmers commiserate with one another over the drudgery of working with "other people's code" (so much so that we feel a need for the acronym "OPC" to describe it). Working with OPC (Other People's Code) (House of Fusion, CF-Talk List, July 22, 2005)