There's a (Dilbert?) comic somewhere out there about this. Can't find it at the moment, though :-/
edit found it: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...
edit found it: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jar...