> Best thing to do is look at some really old code you wrote and realize how far you've come. When I do that, I tend to get surprised how good it looks contrar

> Best thing to do is look at some really old code you wrote and realize how far you've come. When I do that, I tend to get surprised how good it looks contrary to my expectations of coming far since then. And sometimes when I look at the code of some famous project I like, I may get surprised how bad it looks. Maybe this is the difference between "rock star" programmers and your average perfectionists out there - the former just get the job done, while the latter spend too much time making their code look beautiful.