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Re: 10,000 hours




That would include most of the programmers in the world, and if my
work experience is any indication, very few of them are who I would
consider "great" :-)

10,000 hours might get you "professional".  You would be able to
compete in the job market and be a valued team member.  But great?

I think greatness as a programmer is much harder to quantify than
greatness as a musician.  Many people think Linus Torvalds is great,


how many great programmers have there been in the history of computing? 5? 15? you pretty much have to create a platform to be considered great, i'd say - make an OS or invent a language, something like that. Even if you write a great application program, that doesn't make you a great programmer (tho something like Visicalc qualifies because it started a supremely useful category). a great programmer would be severely out of place on most of the teams I'm on.


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