> Pardon me, but I completely don't get this article. Let me in on what > is supposed to be the joke please!
I don't really think there's a joke. I think the author is saying in a somewhat sly way is that often, the difference between a terrible programmer and a great programmer is the discipline applied to the task, and intelligent use of the tools at hand. Catch as many errors as you can as early as possible (before other people see your original stabs at a solution) and when your code is set loose in the wild you will seem like a great programmer. Little do your colleagues know that your tools protect them from your terrible programming. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list