tags:

views:

97

answers:

1
Q: 

Difference between good & great programmers

I've read this quote somewhere: "Good programmers write good code. Great programmers steal great code"

What is the difference between "good" and "great"? Great is better than good? And to be honest... I don't understand this quote...

PS: maybe the title is not explicit and my English not correct, please correct it to be proper English, thanks a lot!

+2  A: 

Great programmers know that their brand-new code will likely never be as good as something that has been around for a while, presumably battle-tested in a number of different situations.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  2010-10-14 12:05:01

related questions

In source-control terminology what is a spike?
When did the term "second-party developer" stop being used to refer to the user?
What is Type-safe?
relational terminology: foreign key source, destination?
What's the best example of a "naive implementation"?
What does "beta" mean for an evolving web application?
Capturing system command output as a string
Computer Science for the elderly
What is the difference between currying and partial application.
What is spaghetti code?
What is the name of this data structure or technique of using relative difference between sequence members
What does WISC (stack) mean?
Using "Foo" and "Bar" in examples
What is the correct term for the documentation that we put just above a method declaration?
What's the difference between an argument and a parameter?
Interrupts and exceptions
What is Cloud computing?
When is a language considered a scripting language?
What's the difference between a "script" and an "application"?
How do you pronounce the following computer/programming terms:
Where does the term "escaping" originate from?
What is a monad?
Is "performant" a valid word? What's the alternative?
'method' vs. 'message' vs. 'function' vs. '???'
What is the difference between Project Leader and Project Manager?