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From: gph@hpcc01.HP.COM (Paul Houtz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The *ART* of Computer Programming
Message-ID: <1210001@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 90 19:23:33 GMT
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ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:

>The author exhibits the usual elitist attitude
>that the "blue collar" trades do not require creativity or ingenuity.  A
>little bit of "on-the-job" research would show him why a master carpenter
>or a master stonemason can earn as much or more than a programmer.

	>Now, back to point 1....
 >to the situation, the architects of the system may impose specific coding or
>documentation standards that may require several hours (or days) of
>thought in order to determine how to code within the requirements.


Right on, Gregory!!!!! 

I'll make one final note:

  The type of coding described in the example, where it is so 
  straightforward as to require no thought, has probably been
  written many thousands of times already.  In otherwords,
  if a little thought and "creativity" were put into the code
  to begin with, maybe it wouldn't have to be written again,
  and again, and again.