[chipuni]

Hi virgil --

There's a big difference between scrutinizing code and putting down the programmer. It sounds like the people you showed your code to didn't know the difference.

Scrutinizing your code should be talking about the code, and nothing else. Emphatically not about you as a person. It should be about where the code is good and bad, and how that's being measured. The person scrutinizing your code should be able to explain their opinions, based only on the code.

It's really tough to separate critique of code from critique of the person who wrote the code.

Good luck.