I can't program because old coding style. This is normal to programmers?

Posted by Renato Dinhani Conceição on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Renato Dinhani Conceição
Published on 2012-04-05T18:21:24Z Indexed on 2012/04/05 23:41 UTC
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I'm in my first real job as programmer, but I can't solve any problems because of the coding style used. The code here:

don't have comments
don't have functions (50, 100, 200, 300 or more lines executed in sequence)
uses a lot of if statements with a lot of paths
has variables that make no sense (eg.: cf_cfop, CF_Natop, lnom, r_procod)
uses a language I am unfamiliar with (Visual FoxPro 8 from 2002)

I feel like I have gone back to 1970. Is it normal for a programmer familiar with OOP, clean-code, design patterns, etc. to have trouble with coding in this old-fashion way?

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