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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: the "programmer" title
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 07:18:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 07:18:25 1986
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>In article <128@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:
>>More seriously, I've met a wide assortment of programmers in the  last  few
>>years  and  I  haven't  noticed  that  programming ability is significantly
>>related to possession of  a  BSCS  degree.  Note  I  didn't  say  inversely
>>related.  I said _not_ releated.
>
>I haven't noticed that programming ability is related to number of years 
>of experience either. There are a LOT of Bad Programmers out there who
>do not seem to learn from their mistakes, even after 10 or 15 years of
>experience.

I've also found that there are a number of older programmers who learned
programming with Fortran and Cobol, and attempt to code C the same way.
Those may be the worst of the lot!

BTW Why is this still in net.singles?
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