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Cover Quote: September 2010

The difference between tolerable programmer[s] and great programmer[s] is not how many programming languages they know. [...] It’s whether they can communicate their ideas. By persuading other people, they get leverage. By writing clear comments and technical specs, they let other programmers understand their code, which means other programmers can use and work with their code instead of rewriting it. Absent this, their code is worthless.

- Joel Spolsky
Advice for Computer Science College Students, 2005
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