Richard King wrote:
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If it's some one else's code, you should only be analysing it if the programmer has died ....

In this day and age, people change jobs with the direction of the wind. I have the thought that half or more of programmers that change jobs do it because they get stuck in the program they are writing; then they leave and some other guy comes in to "fix the little glitch". Right now I'm sitting with a large chunk of '51 code that "works". Once a day about one in 100 (random) of the installed units "go out to lunch". You state that the irresponsible person the created this w/o any documentation "owns" the program till he dies???. I think that the company that paid him good money to make it owns it. I have again, and again come to places where the owner (the company) was in trouble because the programmer had left when a program "worked". I do not recall ever coming in when a program was in development and the original creator was still there.

Richard, when somebody pay me to do something, THEY own it.

Erik