> You might think that Max's practices make for a maintenance nightmare. But I've been "maintaining" it for the last 15 years and I haven't found it to be a nightmare.
c'mon, you're talking about 200 LoC here. anything except BrainFuck would be maintainable at this scale.
have you ever had to fix a non-trivial third party WordPress plugin? the whole API used to be a dumpster fire of global state and magic functions. i dont know what it is now, but 15 years ago it was a total nightmare.