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From: mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Professional Programmers (was: Seeing the future)
Summary: au contraire
Message-ID: <586@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 88 15:54:37 GMT
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> informed about that subject.  This is what employers should be looking
> for when hiring programmers, not familiarity with language X.  (Although
> the latter can sometimes substitute for the former -- it is a safe bet
> that someone who knows MUMPS will know something about medical practice.)
> 

I love sweeping generalizations!  Sorry, I have to cut in.
I run a machine for a stock brokerage and our entire back office system,
as well as out front office system is writtenentirely in MUMPS.  We also
have a product for brokers not in our office based on a multi-user PC
based MUMPS.  Not a medical person in the bunch.  BTW, any person hiring
a MUMPS programmer is likely more concerned with the "MUMPS mindset" than
familiarity with the actual application.  "Good programmers" who don't
have the mindset to deal with teh MUMPS paradigm make lousy MUMPS programmers.

Marc Lewis