Re: Employed Programmers (off topic) was: Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
From: Phlip <phlip_cpp_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:27:51 GMT
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:27:51 GMT
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Richard Riehle wrote:
> In the SF Bay area, as far north as Napa, as far south as Salinas,
> as far East as Merced, one keeps running into Pizza chefs, store
> clerks, security guards, insurance salespersons, real estate sale
> people, handymen, etc., who claim that they used to be computer
> programmers.
Maybe they wrote lots of bugs...
(I know I know - many dot-coms were pumped and dumped, based on investors' abilities to blame programmers, regardless of their proficiency.)
-- Phlip http://industrialxp.org/community/bin/view/Main/TestFirstUserInterfacesReceived on Fri Aug 20 2004 - 21:27:51 CEST