That's overly harsh. Having long-time programming experience does help, also in understanding other people's code faster. It's almost impossible to be programmi

That's overly harsh. Having long-time programming experience does help, also in understanding other people's code faster. It's almost impossible to be programming since your 10th and never been confronted with other people's code in one way or another. Either through open source collaboration, reverse engineering, or even studying/improving example code. (also it means that they are pretty fanatical programmers thus that they're self-motivated)