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In article <1991Jul22.220222.22166@m.cs.uiuc.edu> marick@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Marick) writes:
>Actually, there is a way in which licensing does have an effect.  In
>medicine (veterinary medicine at least), to keep your license, you are
>required to get a certain amount of continuing education per year.
>That's important in a fast-changing field (which both medicine and
>software are).  Certainly this requirement can be abused (sometimes
>continuing education credits are given for little more than class
>reunions), but veterinarians don't stagnate as fast as programmers.

I get continuing education all the time - it's called "working with
good programmers".  I find that far more educational than any CS
course I've ever taken.
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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.