One of the best programmers I ever worked with had a degree in philosophy, having gotten his education before there were formal Computer Science curriculums. H

One of the best programmers I ever worked with had a degree in philosophy, having gotten his education before there were formal Computer Science curriculums. He was one of only two folks I've ever met outside of TeX User Group conferences who had read _The Art of Computer Programming_ (and had a well-thumbed set of Vols. 1--3 on a shelf next to his desk) and had written (and sold commercially) an operating system and full application suite, and when asked, always had a (wonderfully documented) bit of code to apply to any problem.