There's a good chance one can identify bad programmers from coding style. A few symptoms come to mind: - fanatical about manual placement of whitespace - copy

There's a good chance one can identify bad programmers from coding style. A few symptoms come to mind: - fanatical about manual placement of whitespace - copy&paste&mutate large blocks of code all over the place - checks in blocks of commented out code in case they're useful later Identifying good programmers is much harder, there's a lot of variables in that.