This brings to mind Neil Rickert's "The Parable of the Two Programmers", which was published in the ACM SIG Software Engineering newsletter, January 1985. http

This brings to mind Neil Rickert's "The Parable of the Two Programmers", which was published in the ACM SIG Software Engineering newsletter, January 1985. https://dl.acm.org/action/showFmPdf?doi=10.1145%2F1012443 https://dl.acm.org/action/showFmPdf?doi=10.1145%2F1012443 for the original, or https://realmensch.org/2017/08/25/the-parable-of-the-two-programmers/ https://realmensch.org/2017/08/25/the-parable-of-the-two-pro... for a reprint.