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Conway Yee:
   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?

As a matter of fact, I would.  I deal with most of my health problems
myself, and I'm definitely not a licensed docter by any stretch of the
imagination.  And when I really get in a bind, and don't know what to
do, I talk to a pharmacist.

So anyways, what's the problem?  Hell, I don't even live in New
Jersey.  But, that doesn't mean I want to have to respect some
politicians' ideas about whether or not I'm entitled to program.

In other words, the problem is that some sort of state licensing
requirement is a bad trend.

I can just see it: "Ok, your job is to write specifications for
computer programs.  After you spend several months getting it to work,
we'll have to get some bozo in here with a programmers license, and
all he'll do is fuck it up.  But you got to live with it, so you'll
have to read this D.O.C. manual on coding style.  Also note that we're
legally entitled to use our own libraries, but it will go a lot
smoother if you remove the libraries from disk when a programmer is in
here.  You can recover them from archives afterwords.  ..."

-- 
Raul <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>