Hi Andy,

>>You can still read forums, magazines, and books yet never make a post. That doesn't make you a bad programmer, does it?
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>Not necessarily. Consider this though: if you NEVER need to ask anyone else a question, and don't talk to other people about what and how you are working (and how they are working) your view simply has to be more limited than if you did those things. No?

That might be true. OTOH, it stimulates you to be creative and may end up finding solutions to problems no-one else has found so far. IOW, it does not poison you with a lot of crap solutions found in this world.

Walter,