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> 10x longer is not a poor programmer, that's an incompetent programmer. If someone needs ten days to code something that can be done in one day something is very seriously wrong.

That's just not true, it's all relative. Linus Torvalds supposedly coded git to the point where it was self-hosted in 1 day. Even a very good programmer could take more than 10 days to do that, an average (but not incompetent) programmer could take months.



Linus has guessed it took him about two weeks to get git to the point it was self-hosted.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg24132.html

It's still impressive, though.

Edit: Should have read further. It looks like Linus got git self-hosting in two days.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/9




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