Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Competence

Jeff's question: Should competent programmers be mathematically inclined?

My question: what does one have to do with the other? Does writing a 3D engine automatically make you a competent programmer? Does working almost exclusively with databases make you not competent? Mental exercise: Let's swap these two hypothetical programmers for a day and see how it goes.

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