Saturday procrastination – how to recognize a good programmer
Sunday, January 13th, 2008I found this essay on Slashdot yesterday: [how to recognize a good programmer](http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/). Some of the comments were quite insightful, but many followed the following pattern.
"I am a good programmer myself and I match X% of the qualities you mentioned. Therefore, your article is excellent/good/not so good/crap (depending on the value of X) 
I also read two other articles on the topic:
* [Confessions of a Terrible Programmer](http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html).
* [Where are Software Engieers of Tomorrow](http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchonberg.html).