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Seconded! Also I would like to see comments on how programming styles in general have changed over the years - does a 80's era high-quality program still look l
by tgb 12y ago
Seconded! Also I would like to see comments on how programming styles in general have changed over the years - does a 80's era high-quality program still look like a 2010's high-quality program once you factor out the syntactic sugar?
- hisham_hm 12y agoFor this purpose, it might be worth checking out some classic books such as "Software Tools" and "Project Oberon".
- at-fates-hands 12y agoI find it fascinating that larger traditional languages have changed little over time, while the languages of front-end development seems to change daily. My coding style seemingly morphs about every few months now. It's sad to think stuff I wrote even three years ago I would never show someone interviewing me or put it in a portfolio nowadays.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoIf you don't hate the code you wrote six months ago you're stagnating.
- acdha 12y agoThis should only be true during the early days of your career. If you're out of the novice stage, you shouldn't be writing hateful code – maybe there's a new library to use or something you now understand about the problem but that's hardly the level of hatred.