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Revisiting your old code is like reuniting with an old friend, and also your friend is now disfigured. Despite this evidence that I've improved so much in 10+ y
by bdr 15y ago
Revisiting your old code is like reuniting with an old friend, and also your friend is now disfigured. Despite this evidence that I've improved so much in 10+ years of writing code, my self-assessment has stayed constant: very good, close to great. (This must be how Zeno's arrow feels.) Tim Daly's post provides some welcome clarity. I'm happy to still have a ways to go. "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
- lucisferre 15y agoWell look on the bright side, in Chaucer's time the "lyf" was shorter. Chaucer himself died at 57.
- mhartl 15y agoThat might just add to the pressure, though, if you think about it too much. It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for five years. —Tom Lehrer
- wavephorm 15y agoWhenever I read some of my old code, I am always surprised at how although my code was more simplistic than what I write now, there is a certain amount of elegance and efficiency that I have lost over time. Almost like, in an effort to become a better programmer, I now waste too much time trying to be "fancy".