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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: software engineers
Message-ID: <4750@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 21:34:44 GMT
References: <4105@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <4105@ficc.uu.net>, by cliff@ficc.uu.net (cliff click):
> In article <4642@goofy.megatest.UUCP>, djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>> People who call themselves "software engineers" usually can't program
>> worth squat.  
> I've produced 30000 to 35000 lines of code/year for the past 3 years that end 
> up in income-producing products.

Wow. Fifteen lines an hour, eight hours a day, 250 days a year. Love those
keyboard macros! :-)

>  I consider myself BOTH a programmer AND a Software Engineer.  
> 

These days, everybody's got to have a slash. Me? I'm a programmer-
slash-wizard. But then there's a fellow here who, reversing the trend,
just calls himself a "simple country programmer".

>
> "People who post blanket statements should be Shot!"  - me
>

I confess that the irony in the above escaped me on first reading. But be
fair! My blanket had a "usually"-hole in it.  Besides, how do you know
I'm not already shot?