> If you’re telling a programmer that a particular piece of source code simply “does not work”, then you should no longer consider yourself a programmer. I fou

> If you’re telling a programmer that a particular piece of source code simply “does not work”, then you should no longer consider yourself a programmer. I found this article unnecessarily rude. Sounds like someone got grumpy after answering too many SO posts. I agree with what others have said: If someone says that, either they are inexperienced and you can teach them some useful debugging skills, or their brain is on fire and you could try to be more helpful than sending them away.