Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (1986)
I really liked this quote - "Programmers just starting out today never had to squeeze, so it’s a little harder for them to get the right religion because they always think of resources as being immediately available. Ten years ago every programmer ran into resource limitations, so the older programmers are always thinking about those things."<p>And --<p>"I still think that one of the finest tests of programming ability is to hand the programmer about 30 pages of code and see how quickly he can read through and understand it."<p>Does any company run "code comprehension" tests for hiring? Any thoughts?