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No. Mostly because you cannot measure the stuff that makes a good programmer good.
by venomsnake 12y ago
No. Mostly because you cannot measure the stuff that makes a good programmer good.
- mcphage 12y agoWhy do you believe that? It seems unlikely.
- mod 12y agoI don't necessarily agree with GP, however there is currently no good measure, and that's one reason to bolster his opinion.
- Retra 12y agoHaving a good way to measure something is very different from something being impossible to measure...
- venomsnake 12y agoGive me the metrics of a good programmer, and a way that they could not be gamed ...
- bbcbasic 12y agoIt is hard because "programming" is a small part of what you are doing, with communication, politics, interpersonal skills, design, user experience, self management etc. that goes with the job. All this needs to be taken into consideration when scoring. Also a 10 programmer at a startup may suck (or even get fired!) in a traditional corp and vice versa. Then even just focusing on programming a C++ guru may struggle with Haskell. Just as a football star may not win a 100m sprint against athletes in that field, but will do better than joe average.