Then let me tell you something -- in my nearly a decade of being a professional software developer I've had to work with code bases much worse than the current bitcoin code. Internal projects edited by hundreds of programmers over the years, never refactored because of time constraints. Yes it can take some sweat to find out how things work in the Satoshi code, but once you get into it it isn't that bad anymore. If they are any good they should be able to figure it out pretty quickly.

Don't get me wrong though -- I agree that the code could use some serious refactoring.