New comment by superasn in "Ask HN: Examples of bad open source code to learn what to avoid"

An indirect thing you can learn from this example is that how little code quality matters when it comes to product popularity or revenue.

WordPress and its plugins are most often cited as examples of bad code and to top it off it is written in PHP - a programming language hated by a lot of programmers.

Yet when it comes down to it, WP powers 33.6% of all websites on the internet. Just think for a second how big that number is!

So if the software gets the job done and the end-user can easily understand it, it really doesn't matter if you write it in what language, using what code patterns.

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