Sad State of Software Engineers

Let's have a little programming lesson, in simple, straightforward Actionscript.

This is how you output some text to the console:

trace("foobar!");

This is a variable:

var number_of_sheep=5;

This is how you make a loop that counts from 1 to 10:

for(var count=1; count<=10; count++){}

Now let's combine these concepts to count sheep.

for(var number_of_sheep=1; number_of_sheep<100; number_of_sheep++)

{

    trace("There are "+number_of_sheep+" sheep.");

}

This should output:

There are 1 sheep.
There are 2 sheep.
There are 3 sheep.
There are 4 sheep.
...all the way to 100.

Congratulations.  You are now more talented than 199 out of 200 people who apply for programming jobs.
Seriously wtf?  If you haven't read the above link, here's a quote from some guy Reginald Braithwaite:

Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code at all. I repeat: they can't write any code whatsoever.

That's flat-out ridiculous.

Now to be fair there are some distortions in the statistical side of this.  It makes sense that most of the people who apply will be terrible at programming, because all of the good programmers will have gotten jobs already.  Even then, 199 out of 200?

Really, world?