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I remember opening an old script file on our server for scheduled tasks, and thinking to myself; What idiot wrote this mess? It's unnecessarily complex, solving the problem in a convoluted way. And of course, not a single line of comments.

After reading it through and through many times to understand what each line did I kept repeating to myself; What an imbecile... Being this stupid should be illegal... Coding should require some sort of license to prevent idiots from doing this!

Then of course, it slowly dawned on me. I had written this crap one year before. I'm the idiot... 😐

I've commented every line religiously since then.

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  • 8
    Welcome in the real dev world. Where you consider your old self as an idiot who known nothing like John.
  • 2
    @Irro yeah, the more you know, the more you understand how little you actually know.
  • 1
    Yeah. I can relate this. I feels so dumb reading my 6 months old codes. 😑
  • 1
    @lanesra on the bright side, you have it on good authority that you've learned something!
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