In recent years, thanks to the efforts of people like Robert "Uncle Steve" Martin, Kent "Cousin Daisy" Beck and Martin "Martin Fowler" Fowler, code is getting better. It's been getting more reliable, more streamlined and - most worryingly - more maintainable.

If the trend continues our gravy train is in very real danger of being permanently derailed. For decades we have enjoyed the fruits of our crappiness. Badly cut code, riddled with duplication, redundancy, unmanaged...