I think being a core contributor to major pieces of software does imply you are a good programmer rather than a novice, whether you know of them or use that software or not. &quot;Pure verbosity&quot; - Really? You want to disparage his contributions? Take it easy, man.<p>He doesn&#x27;t &quot;dismiss the use of a runtime debugger&quot;, he says &quot;I don’t say this to disparage people that use a Real Debugger. I think Real Debuggers are great, I’ve just never taken the time to learn one well.&quot;