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What is a real programmer? I’ve been doing this job for thirty years and I thought I knew. But then at Codemotion Roma I heard this: “Those who use frameworks are not real programmers”. Maybe it was just a provocative joke. Maybe. Or maybe our profession, like many others, suffers from a form of elitism where one’s own way of doing programming is the only worthy one.