Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx skrev den 25-09-2007 20:25:
"What makes a good programmer is not what he or she already knows:
it's whether or not they have the capacity to solve problems. Knowing

... and solve them well. For instance, solving error handling by swallowing the exceptions is a productive solution in the short run, but does not work well when production scales up.

Good programmers must in my book write code that their successors can understand and maintain.

(Yes I know, a very boring attitude but I guess that folks on this list know about that software lives forever).


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