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Agreed, if you don't cringe either you were already pretty good or you still don't know the same things you missed before.
by atwebb 12y ago
Agreed, if you don't cringe either you were already pretty good or you still don't know the same things you missed before.
- nostrademons 12y agoOr you've changed focus. I look at my old code from 10 years ago and on a line-by-line aesthetic basis, it's pretty good. It's probably better than the code I wrote yesterday, given that I haven't yet setup my IDE to reformat it into a consistent style... But that's exactly what's changed in the last 10 years. Now I consider my code in the context of the world around it, and don't waste time doing things that I can get machines (or other people) to do for me. So while my actual code has gotten worse, I'm much more inclined to use third-party libraries and frameworks when appropriate to solve problems. The problems I solve are more important to me. I pay more attention to how the code fits into the rest of the world around me than how it looks inside.