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0 pointstgb11y ago0 comments

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?

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at-fates-hands11y ago· 2 in thread

I 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_xmaspast11y ago

If you don't hate the code you wrote six months ago you're stagnating.

acdha11y ago

This 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.

hisham_hm11y ago

For this purpose, it might be worth checking out some classic books such as "Software Tools" and "Project Oberon".

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