There are absolutely bad programmers, but it seems to be a fundamentally different way of thinking. Simple example: Go find a business analyst. Someone who's p

There are absolutely bad programmers, but it seems to be a fundamentally different way of thinking. Simple example: Go find a business analyst. Someone who's performing a process daily, over a large number of items. And has done so for 2 years+. Ask them to list all the different types of items (i.e. require a different or modified process). In my experience, ~10% of them will be able to give you a comprehensive list. And only ~5% will bring up anything approaching exception handling for unknown cases.