Do Software Developers get Emotionally Attached to their code?

[jsc42]

DJ van Wyk wrote:

I take a lot of pride in the work I do

So do I, but when I look again at it some months later, I have a very different reaction to it along the lines of "What was I thinking? This is awful!"

[_Asif_]

Yes, there is strong feeling of attachment. I still miss all the code that i had written long ago and lost it (8 inch floppy disks)

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[User 8413112]

Yesterday I came across some code that I wrote at least 25 years ago and is still being shipped as a part of my company's products. I would write it differently today, but I've got to admit that it gave me a bit of the warm & fuzzy knowing that's it's still doing its' job in countless medical labs around the world today.

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[MikeTheFid]

Completely off topic... John, I was sharing your signature with a friend who is a retired special forces paratrooper. He gave me one to give to you:

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[UncleBuckFever]

I long for the day my code lets ME go...

[lkline]

haha, remember spending four years writing in 8086 assembler code, until the C compilers generated useful code. Remember spending four months writing a Base 10,000 math package, sort/merge using qsort, pcode interpreter runtime for a Cobol compiler. I loved doing it and still remember it as some of the best fun I had at the time. For me it was always about the challenge, of course the stock options and bonuses made the IRS and me very happy. Lost a girlfriend after I started and gained girlfriend before the next task, repeat as needed until death.

Lyle

[decaffeinatedMonkey]

It is projects that I become knowledgeable about the domain of that I turn into an emotional wreck and get attached to the code that I write. Its at that point my creativity neurons start activating and I (try) to design and write elegant software, and thus become an emotional wreck whenever someone else decides to fix a "bug".

[jschell]

That is why I eventually threw out the punch cards and paper tape.

[englebart]

Both. We have a major cleanup branch about to start that will remove hundreds if not thousands of obsolete classes due to an architecture update. The old code served us well for more than a decade, but its time has come to ride into the sunset. (or be buried in SCM)

[Abbas A Ali]

Quote:

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