Not surprised here, I'm French and saw that quite a lot from a crowd who think because they learned programming "the scientific way", anyone else is a hack or an amateur at best.
Man got so much disdain ...
"I had to deal with poorly coded rewrite of ..."
"Because of hype and stupid sysadmins ..."
"because in the 2000 good coders were hard to find"
"You cannot self teach it yourself."
"one man armies self taught and not software engineers"
"less expensive to hire self taught programmers than students that had loans to pay"
Do I understand all that right ?
best innovation on the web come from the porn industry ? self taught programming is bad, java engineers are bad, sysadmins are stupids and everyone should move to TCL/TK ?
some people really do have an enormous ego :)