I just cannot cope with the fact that I have to deal with ns2. This really is driving me crazy. Not only is this code absolutely horrible (large classes such cmu-trace.cc are nests of switch/if statements which should be moved in various methods over the objects upon which they act, etc.) but the one release a year does not build out of the box and cannot possibly build out of the box. This gives me the feeling no one cares enough to perform at least a single sandboxed build before releasing the code.

And I am required to write beautiful/good code in this fugly incredibly horrible framework and I can do nothing to fix the framework. Frustration is driving me nuts.