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Celebrity, fanboys, and the workaday programmer (Score:2)

by brian_d_foy (44) <brian.d.foy@gmail.com> on 2007.06.19 10:33 (#55671) Homepage Journal

There are plenty of people who would score highly on your scale but whom I wouldn't hire as a Perl programmer. The quality of code and their ability to work with others has almost nothing to do with anything in that list.

Some people might even think that the list is artificially weighted to exclude the normal guy who's a good programmer, but isn't part of the cabal. The best workaday programmers I've run into aren't names that you'd recognize, and they don't idolize the Perl community. They just do good work then go home at the end of the work day.

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