Dick Ford
Posts: 149
Nickname: roybatty
Registered: Sep, 2003
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Re: Who's the Worst Programmer on Your Team, and How Can You Tell?
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Posted: Dec 20, 2008 10:28 AM
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> > It's funny that programmer posts of this thread nature
> are
> > always about the other guy that sucks.
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> Not really. This you are talking about the equivalent
> self-selected survey. Few people think they suck even if
> they do. And if you truly suck and know it, you are
> unlikely to read programming articles and much less so to
> post responses about how you suck. Although, I do have a
> pet theory that people who post suggesting that it's silly
> or wrong to judge other programmers may themselves suck at
> programming and know at least that other programmers think
> they suck. I've noticed that in code reviews, the people
> who dislike them the most are the ones who receive the
> most negative feedback. I suppose that's unsurprising.
> If you aren't good at your job, the last thing you want
> t is someone critiquing your work.
I think I just posted that I suck....sometimes at least ;) What I've noticed about other people's code is that it's not consistently bad or consistently good. Sometimes their code sucks and sometimes it's good.
Code critiquing is subjective though. There's no getting around that. It's the nature of writing code that there's an infinite number of good ways to write a non-trivial piece of code and an infinite number of ways to write bad code.
Sure, most programmers can tell if a chunk truly sucks really bad, but once you get into that middle ground you get into much more subjectiveness.
There's just too many variables, including different programming languages and the idiomatic ways to program in that language.
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