In my opinion, no one without serious programming credentials has any business writing articles like this one: telling others what "real programmers" are like (

In my opinion, no one without serious programming credentials has any business writing articles like this one: telling others what "real programmers" are like (and often implying that the author is one of those programming demigods). Fair enough if you share something you've learned that helps you be more efficient, write less buggy code etc -- I like reading that kind of essays. Making generalized statements in god mode like in TFA -- I just find that amusing. Who is this guy? Writing a MIPS cache simulator is hardly a challenge -- we had to write one for the computer architecture class at uni (http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/car/ http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/car/) Where's the downvote button when you need it?