> So this is the notion that there is a 10 fold > difference between productivity and quality > of work between different programmers with > the same a

> So this is the notion that there is a 10 fold > difference between productivity and quality > of work between different programmers with > the same amount of experience. > Is this fact or fiction? One thing everyone forgets: there's never the same amount of experience. Different people have different experience and therefore perform differently on things, where difference in experience matters. So, obviously there could be even a 100 fold difference.