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by __david__
5593 days ago
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I'm never happy with my code either. I seem to write parts of it over and over because it just doesn't look or feel right. I believe that's extremely common and from my experience, most of the really good programmers that I've known do it. My personal take is that it means you have some semblance of taste, which I think is essential. Otherwise you end up like the people who think "temp1", "temp2", and "temp3" are perfectly fine variable names and who don't think whitespace is an important concern when programming. |
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One of the great points he made was that if you ever finish a project of any kind and think it's really great -- just perfect, and just what you wanted to achieve -- it's time to hang up your hat and go home, because you're done. You aren't going to improve from there, and you won't learn anything new (though there's always more to learn, in any field).
The harsh self-critique just means that your skills still don't measure up to your taste, and if you find yourself doing great without much trouble, that just means you have really poor taste.