Re: OT: The Geek defense

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:36:14 -0600, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You're right. And when these new "programmers" face a situation that
requires actual programming skills, they're lost. I think a demarcation
between the two different skills would be useful. Perhaps something
like "application assembler" rather than "programmer" would be a
better description for such people. It always gets me when people
who can only write HTML (for example) claim to be "programmers."
It's like a typist claiming to be an "author."

That's what people said about the newcomers who only used compilers to
do what they wanted, instead of actually programming.
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