tedd wrote:
No, I had not read that -- but the article drives home the point I
was making in that it's very difficult to test a person's ability
to program.
And it is definitely language specific. Tackling a problem in PHP
may be way easier than using Assembler.
True, and assembler is easier than machine -- which I've done.
But after all is said and done the key is being able to vision things
in a certain way that is not typical for the majority of people.
That is probably true for the pure logic, but I tried pretty much
any programming environment I could get my hands on and I failed in
all but two. One was the now defunct VB6 and the other one is PHP. I
tried Java and C/C++ and they are just way too complicated.
All complications can be resolve in time. If you work with it long
enough, you'll see the commonality between all languages.
Some of the top programmers I ever met, had no formal education.
Explain that.
The top programmers understand the business and therefore know the
expectations. -snip-
Now you're talking about the definition of a "top programmer" and on
that, we could discus for ages. :-)
That written, I really should get back to work....
Same here -- nice discussion.
Cheers,
tedd
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