Comment by ben_w

Lucky.

I've had one which violated DRY and every SOLID principle…

Well, Liskov might not have been violated, but it was hard to tell what with all the other nonsense in the 120 kloc of copy-pasted pantheon of god-classes that showed flagrant disregard for things so fundamental that you wouldn't think anyone even could even get them weird, e.g. the question of "how are properties defined" being "solved" by having an array which was indexed by named constants… and because it was a god class, which items in that array ever got instantiated depended on which value was passed to the constructor.

Eventually, I found they'd blindly duplicated an entire file, including my "TODO: deduplicate this method" comments, rather than subtype — and their excuse when called out on this was the access modifier, as if changing "private" to "public" was hard.