"One bug — one bug! — was found in qmail." While this is certainly impressive, the number of bugs is not a good metric for measuring the effectiveness of a pro

"One bug — one bug! — was found in qmail." While this is certainly impressive, the number of bugs is not a good metric for measuring the effectiveness of a programmer. A programmer is only as good as the business problems she solves. One bug in a life-critical application could be catastrophic. On the other hand, a programmer that makes sure their code is completely bug-free would not do well in a domain where time-to-market is critical and quality of service is not.