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The best programmers are perfectionists. The more of a perfectionist you are the better your code is. The rest simply follows, reading books, research, bouncing ideas, all that. And as you said, products like Linux are the diligent effort of many great programmers. The person who dreamed up the Red-Black tree sure is. Not sure if the person is a programmer though. It is about perfection. The best programmers are artists.
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Lots of practice  John L. Ries | 09/08/08
Perfection  harischandrav | 09/08/08
RE: Learning the programmer's craft  arrowrod | 09/08/08
RE: Learning the programmer's craft  Gruffydd | 09/08/08
4) By Patrick Smacchia  Gruffydd | 09/08/08
I also like Code Complete  JeremyAllison | 09/08/08
RE: Learning the programmer's craft  ravi16aug@... | 09/08/08
I wish I had a mentor but a book and F1 in MS QBASIC got me started  T1Oracle | 09/09/08
Scott Meyers is great.  JeremyAllison | 09/09/08
Jeremy, you are getting old ...  markbn | 09/09/08
Yes, I'm getting old happy.  JeremyAllison | 09/09/08
hopefully you will get wise too  markbn | 09/09/08
woof happy  JeremyAllison | 09/09/08
OK  markbn | 09/09/08
OOXML was a torpedo that blew up the ISO  stevey_d | 09/09/08
you obviously did not understand the thread  markbn | 09/09/08
He is spot on about OOXML. It is a big black eye for OSI, and a lot of  DonnieBoy | 09/09/08
Yep, waste of time  markbn | 09/09/08
He ain't a gonna bite. And, he does not bash MS, other than reporting the  DonnieBoy | 09/09/08
I don't use or care about Samba  markbn | 09/09/08
Bitter?  zkiwi | 09/09/08
Me?  markbn | 09/09/08
Well...  zkiwi | 09/09/08
RE: Well...  markbn | 09/09/08
Whatever...  zkiwi | 09/09/08
Re: whatever  markbn | 09/10/08
Without the joy, there is no craft  wolf_z | 09/09/08
RE:Without the joy, there is no craft  Sellotaped | 09/09/08
K and R  MichP | 09/09/08
Actually, one MS book that is quite good: Writing Solid Code, by  DonnieBoy | 09/09/08
weren't you the one using XP  markbn | 09/09/08
By the way, does anybody hate C++ iostreams as much as I do? I love C++,  DonnieBoy | 09/09/08
not surprising  markbn | 09/09/08
Talking about quality, I did not see one argument for C++ iostreams.  DonnieBoy | 09/09/08
tell that to the C++ committee  markbn | 09/09/08
I would be more than willing to tell them, but, I think they already  DonnieBoy | 09/09/08
Where's the data  markbn | 09/09/08
No data, but I know of few using the iostream libraries. The C ones just  DonnieBoy | 09/09/08
No data? then  markbn | 09/09/08
I love the boost.org Iostreams library  T1Oracle | 09/09/08
Programming is a skill AND an art.  hamiltonia | 09/09/08
RE: Learning the programmer's craft  lmickelb@... | 09/09/08
RE: Learning the programmer's craft  winstonh@... | 09/09/08
Science can require multiple disciplines  Anton Philidor | 09/09/08
RE: Learning the programmer's craft  DaveFeign | 09/09/08
RE: Learning the programmer's craft  plutes | 09/09/08
RE: Learning the programmer's craft  dnendza | 10/07/08

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