> Stephanie,
> 
> don't mind, everyone of us (maybe except Thomas ;-) ) sometimes feels
> this way; I don't do much programming these days, and sometimes when I
> have to browse through my own source code I have to admit that I'm
> asking myself whether I was really sane when I've written that stuff;
> sometimes I don't understand even my own source codes.

Hello to all,

I've been a lurker for some time now and this is my first post. I just
wanted to say this is a relief to know I'm not the only one that can't
read my own code. I've written code before and then several months
later, at the request of the customer, I would have to go back and
change some things and it would take a while to figure out what in the
world I had written. Some programmers may say that it's a waste of
time to document but I wish I had documented more. I learned my
lesson. :-)

Tonya

> 
> The very first time when you encounter this you will recognise that
> comments and documentation are not at all a waste of time but pure
> necessity. For your own mental health.
> 
> Don't mind that sometimes this looks worse than Greek to you; we all
> have encountered such cases more often than we like to. Just keep
> going on and asking, you've come across the right places (this group
> and cprogramming2).
> 
> Cheers,
> Nico
>


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