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		cobrausn on Nov 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I am a terrible programmer Then why is there such variety of style, brevity, documentation, and technique among good, experienced programmers?

Draiken on Nov 8, 2012 [–]

Even tho it's not a tangible thing, it still exists.

You can't measure it with a ruler or some lines of code formulae, but good programmers are easily recognizable by other good/experienced programmers.

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