[bsedlm]

yes. I think most of us who programmed in the trenches are familiar with forgetting what we've done...

the difference is that nothing I've ever worked on will ever be public or useful beyond a small private business which doesn't even exist anymore.

[hinkley]

After a number of rounds of the game, “who wrote this garbage? I wrote this garbage” I began to recognize my own particular code writing style.

I still get nerdsniped though if certain people start copying my idioms and introduce bugs, because this looks like something I would write but didn’t.

[czep]

Think of the people you've helped get their jobs done over the years. That's worth more than author credit in the colophon of a man page.

[naniwaduni]

The man page has ... probably helped plenty of people get their jobs done over the years!

edit: or the program the man page is documenting!

[laumars]

Your first point is fair too. Commands are useless if nobody documents their usage.