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Warren and Jeff, you make good points and I think Gladwell was on weak ground we he spoke to computer programming. Was Bill Gates a great programmer? What made Bill Gates "great" was that he got IBM to use his operating system, but allow him to keep the license. Microsoft has done some good stuff, but they owe their continuing existence to that one stroke of luck or hubris. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Warren Sirota<wsirota@wsdesigns.com> wrote: > >> >> >> 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. > > > -- > Warren > http://www.ubetoo.com/Artist.taf?_ArtistId=6679 > http://www.warrensirota.com > -- Art Simon simart@gmail.com myspace [dot] com/artsimon