Sure there are self taught people who do great things but having a good solid base of computer science knowledge would seem to be a big edge for learning the n

Sure there are self taught people who do great things but having a good solid base of computer science knowledge would seem to be a big edge for learning the new technologies. I don't understand -- To me, the premise of this article seems to be that these are two different (mutually exclusive) types of programmers. I don't think anyone here would subscribe to that tenuous assertion.