Glenn Becker wrote:

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> > A monkey MIGHT sit down to a typewriter and write a novel.

> > However, that is not the way to bet.

>

> With all due respect, it is also (strictly speaking) possible

> that someone

> might be born knowing how to program and therefore never need to

> experiment or make mistakes; however, I wouldn't lay my money there,

> either.

>

Quibble about the THEREFORE.

People who know how to program, born that way or otherwise,

know how to experiment and profit from mistakes.

Seems that it is only the people who do NOT know how to program

that assume that they cannot make mistakes

and do not need to experiment.