Rewarding incompetence and ignorance increases the number o… - Erik Naggum

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Rewarding incompetence and ignorance increases the number of incompetent programmers. Designing programming languages and tools so incompetent programmers can feel better about themselves is not the way to go.

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Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Lisp programmer.

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[translated from Norwegian with google] Some people are not much more than herd animals, which rot together when the world becomes uncomfortable… I am not one of them. If I had a motto, it would probably be: The herd over there, I here

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