Re:how the best are made... (Score 1)

However, dropping to your knees and worshipping the brilliant scientist-programmer who wrote the core code your company's business depends on will not make you milions of dollars.

That code still needs to be tested against specifications -- even if the specs are written afterwards -- and (re)engineered so that it can be maintained and expanded as new versions and applications demand. Trust me, it's better to write the code in a comprehensible and maintanable way from the start.

If you have a genius who won't work within the programming *organization*'s process, you're sunk. If your genius sees the process as liberating, freeing his mind to create really good stuff ... then pay him lots of money and stock options.

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