I believe we are all at the forefront of programming. Our field as a science is less than a hundred years old. To speak of the Medieval Ages would be too kind;

I believe we are all at the forefront of programming. Our field as a science is less than a hundred years old. To speak of the Medieval Ages would be too kind; Rather, we are still groping around as cavemen, still discovering which berries are sweet and which are poisonous. Frankly, all programmers are flipping morons at this point. In terms of what we know now as a consensus, and what is yet to be learnt, we know less than 1% of what it means to program effectively. Whether you're a high frequency trading performance tuner with multiple collegiate degrees, or perhaps a script kiddy fresh from your first few lines of LEGO coding, the difference between these points of competence, when inevitably measured against the sea of knowledge to come as our field matures in another century, pales to insignificance. Everybody's still skinning cats, in a billion Rubegoldbergesque different ways.