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Somewhere I read this in a signature:
The worst source code, that you can come across, is the code you wrote on your own one year ago.
I just remember this, because I'm sitting in front of some part of my own code that is three or four years old. 
Ok, to see it positive: I learned a lot in the past years.
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I disagree. I love my code I wrote 15 years ago, despite the fact that it was VB6.
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Shameel wrote: despite the fact that it was VB6.
Burn the heretic! 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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<<shudder>>May it not darken your IDE again <> 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Burn the heretic!
That was 15 years ago and people do reform, don't they?
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Shameel wrote: people do reform, don't they?
To reform, they have to show contrition; remorse:
Shameel wrote: I love my code I wrote 15 years ago
Oops!
Burn him! Burn him now!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I still occasionally dig into C++ code I wrote 10 to 15 years ago - while parts of it have me scratching my head the majority is perfectly ok
The Lisp code I wrote 10 years ago has me completely baffled
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May be that your style was already "adult". I changed my style fundamentally... and that was a good thing 
Just to give you an idea about what I'm talking here:
- WinForms instead of WPF
- No Commands
- No Bindings
- A lot of click handlers
- Not a bit of separation between view and model
...
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I still go to the pub with some of the guys from my first coding job, who are still there, and know for a fact that most of the code I wrote back then is still in use
Gives me nightmares! 
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Oh man... now I think back to my first coding job.
It feels like beeing on the couch by a psychiatrist that forces me to think back to something that I successfully drunk away
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Some of the samples of code that I wrote years ago were things of beauty - they were lean, efficient, mindful of every last clock cycle and optimizer trick that I could employ. It's sad to see how flabby my code ended up becoming with the advent of frameworks - it became too easy to rely on a potentially inefficient API implementation, rather than coding up a tighter implementation of my own.
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I can relate.
On the other hand, I feel like optimizing code has now become less relevant than transparency.
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So now you use a framework, throw a crap load of more cycles at it and produce 5 times as much out the door! I call that a win, if not an elegant win!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Oh, I know - that's the whole reason I use the frameworks in the first place. Sadly, though, the ability to optimise is being squeezed out and it seems as though younger generations of coders don't want to learn how to do this. There are exceptions, obviously, but as these are the coders that go into places like Microsoft, inefficiencies will continue to be propagated,
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Looks like we work in the same company.
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You are so right.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Markus-811 wrote: Somewhere I read this in a signature:
wizardzz[^] had.
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That is sad and funny at the same time....  
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Pfft. I'm still maintaining code I wrote over ten years ago. My worst pain point with it is I was still using K&R braces back then.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: My worst pain point with it is I was still using K&R braces back then
Kernighan and Ritchie?! Oh, that is a rather old notation. But if it has a readable architecture/structure, this can still make some fun.
But my coding style changed from hacking to something more sophisticated.
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Markus-811 wrote: The worst source code, that you can come across, is the code you wrote on your own one year ago.
Both of the commas in the sentence are incorrect. If the guy writes code with as many syntax errors, I can well believe his statement.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"It's all pea and ham stew for this fellow!"(5,4)
Nice and easy!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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ALPHA MALE
ALL PEA + HAM anagram.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Probably Alpha Lame...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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