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by h0h0h0 5785 days ago
I don't agree with the following comment:

"Great programmers spend very little of their time writing code – at least code that ends up in the final product. Programmers who spend much of their time writing code are too lazy, too ignorant, or too arrogant to find existing solutions to old problems. "

I mean so... who's writing the code then? Who's writing the original code? I would call a clever programmer a great programmer. Just clever. and sometimes clever can get you into trouble. But just sometimes :)

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They write code for things they can't find an existing solution. Its not that they don't write any code, they just don't write very much, and what they do write is good enough to be found and used by others.