More than the language du jour, many of us evolve. The way I wrote in code in language X today is a bit different than how I wrote it 6 months ago. This is es

More than the language du jour, many of us evolve. The way I wrote in code in language X today is a bit different than how I wrote it 6 months ago. This is especially true when first starting a language. Then, as I've worked in more languages, I've been exposed to better techniques and those influence how I think about problems. At any given time I'm writing code as clearly as I can given my experience and body of knowledge. It also is representative of my exposure to and familiarity with the problem domain at that point in time. As these things evolve, my older code ceases to be as clear as I thought. It may very well not be the way I'd solve the problem again. And that's before I need to start making changes to code clarity to satisfy a hard requirement (reduce memory usage, cache values, tighten up performance, etc.).