Re: OT: The Geek defense

"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It has always puzzled me why so many (particularly COBOL) people hesitate
to make the leap to a different language, when "programming ability" is an
underlying skill, that really shouldn't be language dependent...

You are assuming the presence of fundamental programming skills.

However, many of the modern development tools/environments allow
"developers" to create applications without ever learning those
fundamentals. A few clicks, a few drags, a few drops and presto! you can
call yourself a programmer.

With no such tools available, people of our generation HAD to learn the
fundamentals, so for us changing languages or development environments is
pretty straightforward... except when we find ourselves in one of these
newfangled IDEs where fundamentals don't matter.

--
Michael C. Mattias
Tal Systems Inc.
Racine WI
mmattias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx




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