Agree very much on this. Try to talk about the code, not the person writing the code. Talk about the code has errors, not that the programmer made an error writ

Agree very much on this. Try to talk about the code, not the person writing the code. Talk about the code has errors, not that the programmer made an error writing the code. This: Returning a string from this method is an error because ... vs: You made an error by returning a string from this method because ... The second one is more likely to make people defensive, IMHO.