On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano < st...@removethis.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> Nathan Stoddard wrote: > > > The best way to become a good programmer is to program. Write a lot of > > code; work on some large projects. This will improve your skill more than > > anything else. > > I think there are about 100 million VB code-monkeys who prove that theory > wrong. > There aren't 100 million VB code-monkeys. There are 100 million VB drag-and-drop monkeys, but they never actually wrote any program by themselves- Daddy Microsoft wrote a lot of it for them. > > Seriously, and without denigrating any specific language, you can program > by > (almost) mindlessly following a fixed number of recipes and patterns. This > will get the job done, but it won't make you a good programmer. > > > -- > Steven > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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