🚀 go-pugleaf

jhummel@wave.ics.uci.edu (Joseph Edward Hummel) writes:
>These tests should be easy for anyone already competent,
>so what is everyone (e.g. AT&T) worried about?

They are worried about having to pay vast sums of money to run
yet another corrupt state bureaucracy from which they will obtain,
at best, no financial benefit; to be told, at best, what they are
better qualified than the state to find out (which programmers are
competant and which aren't), and at worst, to be told that they may
hire Joe Blow with the 2-year CS degree who finds COBOL terse and
impenetrable and that they may NOT hire Alfred E. Newman who dropped
out of high school 20 years ago because his programming abilities
convinced a major defense contractor to hire him NOW (not his real
name).

>It won't get rid of all the so-called professionals ripping people off
>who don't know better, but then nothing ever does.

So why charge tens of millions of dollars not to do get rid of the problem?
Why even charge a buck and a half?

> Just my $0.02 worth.

Even that overstates the financial value of this proposal.	:-)