Excellent article. And I think the parenthetical comment here cuts to the chase > And as much as I want to just accept it (for reasons of self-aggrandisement)

Excellent article. And I think the parenthetical comment here cuts to the chase > And as much as I want to just accept it (for reasons of self-aggrandisement) For people who identify as "great programmers", there's a huge amount of ego and status that comes with this view. Don't get me wrong, I think that computer science education in the US is pretty bad, and lots of people come out of school without having great programming skills, but there's a huge difference between the elitism of "almost everybody but me is a bozo" and the more complex reality.