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Article #73724Re: NJ wants to license programmers
From: Shawn Blair
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1991 02:55
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1991 02:55
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In article <46549@netnews.upenn.edu> yee@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu (Conway Yee) writes:
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>Ok, I'll bite. What's the problem? Licensing merely mandates a minimum
>level of competency. Many other professions have licensing procedures
>for exactly that reason. Would you prefer to be treated by a doctor who
>did not have a license to practice medicine?
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This sounds like the software engineering debate that still goes on and on...
What would scare me more is a lack of participation by the professionals it
would affect. Anything created solely by politicians is likely to be dangerous
AND inept.
Shawn
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,624fa0d9d693a21f X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-26 03:17:16 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!rice!uupsi!jpradley!shawn From: shawn@jpradley.jpr.com (Shawn Blair) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: NJ wants to license programmers Message-ID: <1991Jul24.025538.15710@jpradley.jpr.com> Date: 24 Jul 91 02:55:38 GMT References: <1991Jul19.160827.876@watson.ibm.com> <46549@netnews.upenn.edu> Organization: Unix in NYC Lines: 21