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From: Hot Tamales ! (hot_at_mexico.gov.org.food)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:43:09 GMT

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:02:37 -0700, Jörn W. Janneck wrote:

> Hot Tamales ! wrote:
> [snip]
>> Should programmers be paid like customer service
>> representatives rather than demigods ?
>
> if you want your average programmer to be as qualified as your average
> customer service representative, sure.

Are most programmers really that 'qualified'

I think there are a lot of *fakers* amoung us...

> of course, we would then sit in a fly-by-wire 777 whose control software was
> designed by someone who learned programming during a weekend seminar.

You miss my point.

What I'm saying is that with sophisticated platforms like .NET with
automatic garbage collection, we can substitute a lot of low paid
programmers, ala India, for a few high paid programmers.

So, the job no longer requires quite the twists and turns of what was
needed in the past, just a lot of reasonably competent people.

So, a .NET fly by wire, writen in Advanced XML, would require a lot of
$55,000 a year people, to basically make sure there were enough try/catch
blocks to insure stability.

But nobody would have to worry about null pointers, for instance, so why
pay big bucks ?

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