Website review: Never fall in love with your code. ...
Zero1Infinity discovered this in Programming
•7 reviews since Mar 2, 2007
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Zero1Infinity discovered 17 months ago- Ever thought your code was genious... read this post. All code becomes crap. But you have to love it when you build it, or it'll be crap from the start.
- WikiKiba rated 14 months ago
- This is so true!
- eric rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "I used to think John's quote was good advice. Now I think it's not so simple. It's true that all code becomes crap. But you have to love it when you build it or it'll be crap from the start."
- shoerob rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "I used to think John's quote was good advice. Now I think it's not so simple. It's true that all code becomes crap. But you have to love it when you build it or it'll be crap from the start."
- marxxelo rated 17 months ago
- Totalmente de acuerdo. El código que hoy estoy desarrollando me parece impecable, lógico, compacto, insuperable... lo mismo que pensaba del código escrito hace 2 años y que hoy me parece bastante desordenado... Never fall in love with your code. Because it's crap. "I never understood it properly until recently, when I found myself looking at some old code I'd written about 10 years ago. That code really was crap. The most embarassing part was the comments, many of which looked like ///////////CHECK OUT THIS AWESOME GENIOUS CODE RIGHT HERE!!\\\\\\ It made me think seriously about all the code I'd written since that time. Is it all crap? Yes. It's all crap. Even the code that seemed good at the time, even the code that still looks half-decent today. If it's not crap now, it will be when I look at it 5, 10, 20 years down the road. Man, that is depressing. I had strong feelings for some of that code. Maybe not love, but firm affection and respect."
- deezleguy rated 17 months ago
- An excellent quick read...and I completely agree. I'd also like to add this: All of my older code is crap - some, because I've matured as a developer, but also because time makes you forget why some things are hacked the way they are. Maybe its a manager telling you that you need to jam feature X before Friday, or maybe this code was written to be a prototype, but because it was "good enough," it handed up getting in production. I've grown fond of plenty of things I've written, yet I'd write them completely different if I could do it all over again.
- gwicks56 rated 17 months ago
- "Never fall in love with your code. Because it's crap." So true, so true.
