> the majority of programmers are effectively "digital plumbers". I don't think this is entirely true or accurate. Unless plumbing profession also has the phen

> the majority of programmers are effectively "digital plumbers". I don't think this is entirely true or accurate. Unless plumbing profession also has the phenomena of plumbers removing hair balls, and other junk, from pipes put in there by other plumbers .. that said, in Brazil, we did get a glimpse of working on a typical large codebase.