>I don't really see why the "Illiterate" is necessarily a terrible programmer, though. Code is the very opposite of literature: hard to read, easy to write. Hm

>I don't really see why the "Illiterate" is necessarily a terrible programmer, though. Code is the very opposite of literature: hard to read, easy to write. Hmm...if you're writing in Perl or PHP, maybe. Though even then a good developer can write clean code even in those languages. I'm very much NOT a fan of Python, but one advantage of Python is it's easier to write readable code. As to the Illiterate: It's absolutely essential to be able to read other peoples' code if you're programming on a team. It would be nice if most developers documented their code better, but since 99% of them don't document well, it's critical to be able to dive in and figure out what the other developers have done.