Why would you care where people learned programming from? If you know how to spot a good programmer with a real interest in programming, what does it matter wh

Why would you care where people learned programming from? If you know how to spot a good programmer with a real interest in programming, what does it matter where he started? Only people who don't know how to spot or attract a good programmer fall back to big school names, and years of experience and all the rest of the fake stuff.