[patrickcteng]

I"ve been coding professionally for the last 12 years -- I'm 34 now -- and my code definitely still looks like example 2.

Maybe it's because I code in multiple languages daily, but I tend to not use a lot of the language features for each language. A part of it is definitely thinking about the ones that come after me, and wanting everyone -- from every background -- to be immediately able to reason about the code without having to look up what every syntax feature does.

I guess it's a fine line between depth of language features used vs. readability once one is gone from the project.

[harel]

Its not an exact science, or even close to approximate. It's more for fun than anything else. The correlation between style and personality is 'loose'. And a lot of it is in the perspective of the observer and what he knows about the person upfront. I guess. Consider this a "fun" or "not fun" exercise, and nothing more :)

[Retra]

So what you're saying is that you guess and then rationalize your successes? (If the correlation is loose, you've really got to measure it to know for sure it even exists.)

[s-p-n]

I'm pretty much the same, been coding since 16 and I'm 28 now. I've gone through phases but I mostly code like the 2nd style. I mostly use JavaScript but occasionally pipe in another program (say python or C) when needed. I use new language features if it helps make things easier- ES6 has some really cool things, but I try not to let my code become cryptic. :)