At 4:19 PM -0600 3/13/02, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
>Gyepi SAM [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
>*>
>*>CS graduates can produce just as much crappy code as non-CS graduates,
>*>though they are less likely to do so. A degree merely assures that the
>
>Most often it is those who left university to pursue the dot com dream who
>say this. Self-taught code wonders are rare and ones that write lucid code
>are even rarer.
What makes it worse is the ones you do see are really high profile,
so it seems better somehow. (The perl community's got a bunch, but so
does any community)
Generally I'll agree with Elaine--folks with formal training produce
better code on average than the self taught. Some still suck, and
some of the wunderkind will get you good code, but counting on the
brilliant isn't a great way to go.
--
Dan
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