> Engineer, scientist and programmers are probably in an unusual situation - they are exploring a primarily unknown solution space. This depends on what you ar

> Engineer, scientist and programmers are probably in an unusual situation - they are exploring a primarily unknown solution space. This depends on what you are doing. Some programmers are exploring a primarily unknown solution space, and the best programmers probably self-select as this is difficult. But the vast majority of programmers are busy applying the same well understood techniques to different problem domains.