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They were brilliant in the 80ies, when programming was soldering chips (Pacman...). Then Bill Gates forced them to use Windows instead of their clever Tron system. As a retaliation, the whole nation teamed up to become the worst Windows programmers nation in the world, far behind Zimbabwe and Angola.
You can find dedicated lone geniuses, though. But they can't speak english, they code in Notepad.exe on Windows 95 and they have this culture of secrecy preventing them to share anything.