Is this a survey?

Posted Aug 22, 2025 10:19 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Is this a survey? by Wol
Parent article: The State of Python 2025

Both coding and driving benefit massively from practice, both suffer badly from beginner confidence - the proportion of youngsters who crash cars, and screw up coding, is high for both.

OTOH, the universe has drastic methods of getting rid of the really bad drivers that don't work on (most) bad programmers in the same way.

As the saying goes, “there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots”. But the world is teeming with old incompetent programmers.