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From: paul@ccunix.UUCP (Paul Killey)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: the "programmer" title
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 00:15:19 EST
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An old saw I've heard expressed by "computer pioneers" (people who
started by building the first machines in the 1940s and 1950s) and
others holds that there were always 50 good programmers, and that there
will always be [exactly] 50 good programmers, no matter how many
programmers there are.  It is a constant.

It's reminiscent of some kabalah-type stories about there being so many
good people, blessed people, whatever.

I think it's true.

--paul