Re: Employed Programmers (off topic) was: Timeless Classics of Software Engineering

In article <XgsVc.1709$K41.1675_at_newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>,  "Phlip" <phlip_cpp_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.)
>

To be fair here, are these people who assumed that stringing HTML 3.x together counted as programming? God knows 6 yrs ago Silicon Valley was full of those.

Maynard Received on Sat Aug 21 2004 - 09:48:13 CEST