>Can you be a skilled programmer... The answer is no. I agree with you and there is a chance that I could've been less generous in my description. I think the

>Can you be a skilled programmer... The answer is no. I agree with you and there is a chance that I could've been less generous in my description. I think they were ashamed to be confronted since they had a more advanced education and experience level than most of the rest of the team. They worked well with everyone, would gladly help others improve skills, had a great personality and sense of humor but their main defect was the unwillingness to accept the fact of their own fallibility, causing production lags and extra work fixing problems that shouldn't have happened. We handled it and it all worked out in the end.