The importance of bad code

Stum­bled upon a post by Marco Tabini titled: The impor­tance of bad code (or, Word­Press and why I am a psychic)

While I’m not sure where the psy­chic part comes in, his argu­ment in favor of tol­er­at­ing bad (ugly) code was pretty good. Essen­tially he states that projects that have lots of bad code in them (par­tic­u­larly in the open source com­mu­nity) is a good thing. It gen­er­ally indi­cates that the exper­tise level required to con­tribute to the project is low, and that many peo­ple are contributing.

If you have a few min­utes I highly rec­om­mend read­ing the full post and the first cou­ple of comments.