In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/19/2006
at 12:55 AM, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>No good programmer I have every known was at all humble,
That depends on what you mean be "humility"; every good programmer
that I've met was aware of his own abilities *and* of his own
limitations.
>even [some few of them] arrogant about their skills.
When arrogance keeps them from seeing problems in their code then they
aren't great programmers, or even good programmers.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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