> Many of them are written by amateurs, people who -- even though they're getting paid to write code -- have only been in the industry for a couple of years Ye

> Many of them are written by amateurs, people who -- even though they're getting paid to write code -- have only been in the industry for a couple of years Yeah, it's an interesting point, because it's not even "many", it's "most". There's a talk by Bob Martin where he goes into this. His statistic was that the number of working programmers is doubling every five years, which means that at any given time, around half the population has less than five years' experience.