On the other hand....
.....the small piece of code which set the values for they key parameters in the software to set up the emissions profile was configured by two very pissed off programmers kept behind over a public holiday because a management cock up had made the project run late.
As is often the case they were the only technical people involved in the project beneath 15 layers of increasingly clueless management, most of whom were from Marketing.
So they wrote an obfuscated regular expression to set the values. When the code was viewed they said "It's just simple maths - obvious, really." Nobody wanted to admit they didn't understand simple maths so it passed the limited review and went straight into production to meet the project timescales.
For the first few weeks the programmers waited for someone to challenge them because it was such an obvious "Fuck you!" ploy but nobody mentioned it and they were redeployed onto other mismanaged projects and since they didn't care about the company and the management they eventually drifted off into the mists of wherever pissed off programmers go, and were lost to history.
Yep - I could believe that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
