Re: [hangout] Re: pittance

Not to mention that certain GUI "Development Environments" eased people 
into programming. One company I was at had a guy who used to work in 
HR, they moved him up to a junior java developer (WebSphere with WAS 
Studio Development Environment). I am not a java person but there are 
so many classes that do things for you, a person can get pretty far 
even though they lack the ability of true problem solving and algorithm 
design.

-john

On Apr 11, 2004, at 7:15 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> Abstract reasoning and algorithm design *is* a specialized aptitude.
> One of the problems the dot-com boom created was a huge artificial
> demand (which later collapsed) driving a lot of incompetent people
> into the field chasing the pot of gold that most of them didn't
> deserve.