>Hello Dean.
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>I've worked with programmers that really didn't get involved with "groups", but they could code the pants off of anyone. They just choose to keep to themself.
>
>Hmmmm. How is it then that they learn and get new ideas?

Marcia;

Sorry for the following but you hit a sore spot!

In programming you will meet all kinds of people. Most are human and others? I am not sure of some. Here is one example.

I worked with a self-anointed “god” who thought only he knew how to create “proper code”. He told me that he learned everything from “the help file”! This person would send a broadcast e-mail to all 250 people in the company and express, "So and so wrote this line of code! It should have been written this way....."! He never did that to me - perhaps because he was 5' 6" and I am 6' 7"! :)

Strange thing that when the five of us merged our code ours worked and his did not. No one would stay after work to help him either! When you are of this nature you become a political animal to save your behind, which he did! You have to find something you are good at in life! :)

Tom