I found my old code from high-school

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Damn, I was so horrible! I couldn't relate to the Aspie programmer's description on RDOS (which has been deleted, I don't know why). I learned myself to code in Delphi, without Internet access (at home), by trial and error. My code resembled assembler mixed with brainf**k. Tons of hardcoded numbers, short, sometimes quite meaingless variable names, huge methods and absolutely NO or very few comments. And I already had a few good years of (lone) experience (I used to code games that way). For example, particles were programmed using switch block with numbers (no comments here, of course) and, inside one block, there was a WALL of trigonometrical functions mixed with hardcoded magic numbers (description of some behaviors).

Damn, I feel dumb, but on the other side it amazes me that I could maintain this code and still can easily understand everything from the past.

I feel like the worst programmer in the world. I know, I was just wild, self-taught, obsessive loner and my code quality is far better now, but it's still a shame that I could ever make something like this (especially as an Aspie).

Haha, this is why I made several backups of all my highschool work.. I figure if nothing else its good for a laugh in the future!

This always happens when you stumble on the old stuff. Seems that just about every coder gets better with time.

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