🚀 go-pugleaf

On 8 Oct 1998 07:25:41 GMT, Daemon.S@emon.org flexed his fingers and
opined:
>Novice, purely code oriented programmers with little experience and
>marginal education eventually become older and wiser, so your time
>will probably come, although it may be a while, judging from the inane
--snip--

Which is like saying given enough time a novice musician will become a
Charlie Parker.  Assembly-line code jockeys are technological drones.
They can be very efficient workers in their narrow fields of expertise
but sweat shop environments don't produce the kind of imaginative and
well-rounded propellor heads that big business needs to develop their
cutting-edge software or create novel solutions to new problems.

The implication of your statement is that older, wiser programmers
will reach a point where there's nothing left to learn.  That's
nonsense, especially nowadays with new technologies being announced
almost weekly and older ones being dropped along the road almost as
quickly.  Tomorrow's COBOL dinosaurs will be today's mercenary cubicle
rats who churn out the same crap every day (or the old farts who do
the same thing).  I've worked with 'em.  They  have depressingly short
shelf lives and never really get the point to begin with.  Good
programming is and has always been an art, not a crop picker's job.

America's good programming gigs are safe.  The offshore worker bees
are just doing the repetitive stress syndrome gigs that none of us
really want anyway.

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