On 04/11/06 06:10 +0530, sastry wrote: > On Friday 03 Nov 2006 8:43 pm, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote: > > I wonder what makes one programmer good, and another average > > What makes a programmer "bad" or "average"? > That elusive thing termed 'code quality'. A good programmer can write readable code to do the right thing. A bad programmer can write readable code to do almost the right thing, or just unreadable code.
> I would have been inclined to believe that, iike all other skills on earth - > there is no such thing as a "world's best" programmer. Programming skills I would agree with that. > probably fall under a bell curve under which most programmers would fall, > with an individual programmer being able to form some tasks better than most > others given certain circumstances, and another scoring better than her > depending on task and circumstance. Programming is simply a job of translating between human readable language to an exact, formal computer "understandable" language. Some people are better translators than others, possibly because they know the domain of work better, and get more done with less lines of code. Devdas Bhagat
