> I hear this argument a lot but maybe that's just me but I don't forget much. I don't have perfect memory, far from it, but remembering my thought process when

> I hear this argument a lot but maybe that's just me but I don't forget much. I don't have perfect memory, far from it, but remembering my thought process when faced with my old code, even decades old is not really a problem for me That might be true for you. But I have met too many people that say this about themselves, but then I see them "understanding" their old code (i.e. looking around and not having a clue). In their cases, its just self-deception. Its the same people that say they don't need comments, but then they look around their own files with confused faces. But yeah there are definitely also people with good memory. Those are also the people that happen to, for example, put more thought in structuring their code. > Boring, repetitive tasks are for the computer, not the developer. Unfortunately we have to do a lot of boring, repetitive tasks when developing that could be done by the computer ;-(