Wednesday, December 12, 2007

John Gilmore's test of a good programmer

John Gilmore suggested to me a test of a good programmer: one who has written a piece of software that at least 1000 people have downloaded from the Internet.

- Arun Mehta

1 comment:

D. Patrick Caldwell said...

That's an interesting thought. What if you write SaaS applications? Nobody downloads them but I get thousands of users a day? What does John Gilmore think of that?

I'm trying to conduct a survey on what makes a good programmer and would appreciate your input. If you'd encourage your readers to take the survey to, that'd be awesome!

The survey can be found here: What Really Makes a Good Programmer Survey.

Thanks,
Patrick