Strange. I've been programming for over 50 years. I recently finished a 13,000 line Macintosh program. I don't have a clue about much of what you list (I wis

Strange. I've been programming for over 50 years. I recently finished a 13,000 line Macintosh program. I don't have a clue about much of what you list (I wish I did!). I believe the matter of what a programmer is (or software engineer if you insist) is more complicated than the list seems to imply. I suspect it represents an unrealistic ideal.