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by WalterBright 2311 days ago
I personally know many programmers who are easily 10x average programmers. No question about it.

They crank out code that is easy to read, easy to understand, works right out of the box, and gives years of trouble-free operation.

Sean Parent is one of those programmers. It's pretty obvious when he describes how he replaced a nightmarish tangle of code that re-invented a simple rotate algorithm.

It's a remarkable talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2tWOdzgXHA