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If I were to compare myself to how I am now to years ago I would be ashamed of the code I wrote. Occasionally I have to dig out legacy projects in php and wond
by chrislomax 16y ago
If I were to compare myself to how I am now to years ago I would be ashamed of the code I wrote.
Occasionally I have to dig out legacy projects in php and wonder how my code was ever scalable. My main thing was bad class decisions, naming and what to put in them.
If the code I had written had been downloaded a million times though, I think my view would be different, I would be proud of it. It doesn't get downloaded for no reason.
The only thing that matter is, if you had the chance to rewrite the code, would you know what to do differently? I think that's the real angle you should be going into an interview with. You have an app with a million downloads and if you were to do it all again then you would do X differently.
I don't know if you are referring to OsCommerce but I can tell you that is some pretty bad code in there but for the best part of 3 years I would use it on sites all the time. It doesn't make the idea any less brilliant.
Good luck