I can't think of any real hackers who honestly think that this is required to be good at the art of writing software. That being said, I'd imagine that a number

I can't think of any real hackers who honestly think that this is required to be good at the art of writing software. That being said, I'd imagine that a number of very highly skilled software people probably have an interest in NOT working somewhere that fosters such blatant snobbery.