The original comment from Joel on Software has been preserved with comments at:

https://gwern.net/doc/cs/2005-09-30-smith-whyihateframeworks...

Note that one of the comments is from me :-)

First time reading this. Thanks for the laugh. Trigger warning for those who have worked on legacy Java/C# code.

I'd like the extend the Trigger warning to people still building Java apps because it's the same shit.

You really need a visitor pattern factory factory for trigger warnings.