I have looked upon code that struck me down with Lovecraftian dread. Here, let me paint you a picture of a ubiquitous Microsoft product, written in C++. Entry point calls Initialize. Initialize calls Initialize2, which calls Initialize_internal, which recurses to Initialize with a flag that makes it branch another way, which calls Initialize_subsystem, which calls Initialize_subsystem2, etc, which finally recurses again to Initialize_internal with another flag ...

Honestly I never even made it out of the init code. I asked to be taken off the project immediately.