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Yes. And it one of the biggest mistakes coders make.
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No, I don't get attached. My preference is to write clean, easy to read, low defect code that others can easily maintain. I don't need credit for anything.
I do get ticked off when someone makes a change to my code and decides to reformat it or not follow the coding standards. The typical reply I get is "it works!"
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Having others work on 'your' project can be both good and bad.
I was really attached to my previous project at my old job. I had worked on it for 5+ years and it was my 'baby' and I put in a lot of effort to make it a top notch product. I am pedantic about code formatting and how I think code should be written, so when another developer also worked on the code and didn't do code formatting and left out some things like window icons I wasn't too happy.
But it can get too much and make you arrogant, thinking that nobody else can do the job properly. On a recent project I was glad to have some help and I actually found some respect for my fellow workers - they did a very nice job with the code and styling work and I can learn from their code.
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Sure, if you ask about the first "big" subsystem I was "product responsible" for, in my first job after my graduation in 1983: Sure. I have always known where I keep the box with the source code printout, and every now and then I feel a slight urge to glance through it, one more time.
Your firstborn is always special. Yet I hope that parents with five or six kids have stronger emotional ties to #5 and 6 than I have to the fifth and sixth product I worked on. And nowadays, 30+ years later? I am so happy if someone wants to take over my code. My experience is that whenever someone seizes control over someone else's code, they will "clean it up" - that is, reformat it, remove "unneccessary" comments and add others, join or split classes, rename variables... All of this may of course be limited by company coding standards, but everybody is eager to mould the code into their own style as far as possible.
When I see the code again, a year later, I hardly recognize it as originally being my code. So I never weep "What did you do to MY code, you cruel code molestor??" - that isn't my code. You do whatever you want to it.
Actually, I feel more emotional ties to architectures and designs. What really bugs me is when I have been fighting in vain for some major architectural change over a long time, but it is rejected (usually due to cost), then when I leave that project, three months later it is decided that "it seems like we simply have to impement that change / design"... That has happened to me several times - and in every case, it is presented as a contribution of the reorganized project team with no reference to the work done earlier. But since I wasn't involved at the time the architecture / design was finally accepted, there is nothing that I can attach to as "mine".
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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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UnTil You Inspire!
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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.
It's a hard life.
But somebody's got to live it, if only to act as an inspiration to others.
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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
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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".
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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)
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...to convince ladies not to eat Tide pods.
But it's harder to deter gents! 
Better get my coat...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onllokers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I think you should have posted that in the soapbox instead...
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Soap the postbox?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Suds! I know you're right, but I'd lather put it here! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onllokers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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An original with no grief. 
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I laughed so hard I sprayed Tide all over my keyboard and monitor. Thanks.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Maybe a subject for the soapbox, but why is everyone so oversensitive and politically correct these days? It was clearly meant in a non serious manner.
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As you say, a matter for the SB... I've carried this on there...
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Jacquers wrote: It was clearly meant in a non serious manner.
I understand where you're coming from on this - but right now there's quite a resurgence in human trafficking and slavery in general - so it really doesn't play well.
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Ok yeah, I didn't think about that...
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Given that the slaves who built the pyramids have been dead for over 3,000 years, I can't say that it should bother anyone today, or their descendants.
(And no, the Israelites did not build the pyramids.)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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what about the sweat-shop that produce the t-shirts?
bit on the nose to me: I read it as buy this t-shirt and keep modern day slaves in labour.
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Lopatir wrote: what about the sweat-shop that produce the t-shirts?
Have you given up wearing T-shirts, button-down shirts (in fact most clothing)? Have you stopped buying other products made in third world countries?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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