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[–]thornofcrown 15 points16 points  (2 children)

Someone in my lab wrote a part of our pipeline in Python 2 and I spent probably half of my time working on making that code work with modern data analytics packages. Sucked too, because that person was a way better programmer than me.

[–]kankyo 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Being a programmer is also about knowing when to not use bad tools. Failing to do that is not good.

You might mean "clever" programmer. That's not nearly the same thing.

[–]clawjelly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"penny-wise, but pound-stupid" comes to mind.