Tadek’s Blog

I found this essay on Slashdot yesterday: how to recognize 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.
• Where are Software Engieers of Tomorrow.