🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <PREECE.91Jul28231311@etude.urbana.mcd.mot.com> preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) writes:
>Just by the way, unless there are two separate bills in the New Jersey
>legislature, the RISKS newsgroup ran the text of the bill a few days ago
>and it said, basically, nothing about programming.  It talked about
Without a specific definition of programming, that's not very helpful.
Their description sounded like what I would expect most programmers to do.

>licensing *software engineers*.  The licensing criteria were passing an
>accredited course of study *or* combining a certain number of years
>experience with a test.  Software engineering was defined as doing
Picking a number of years before someone can be licensed is about as
useful as picking a number of years before someone can graduate from
school.  I ignored the latter, I'd just as soon ignore the former.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.