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by trs8080 1603 days ago
I can count on one hand the number of people I've known in my lifetime who are over 7', but met hundreds of students over four years in college who understood recursion.

And programming is not the NBA, and people who write code are not all-stars. We're plumbers, and the idea that programming is some genius's endeavor that only the smartest people can understand is laughable.