Re: OT: The Geek defense

"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> It has always puzzled me why so many (particularly COBOL) people
hesitate 
> to make the leap to a different language, when "programming ability" is
an 
> underlying skill, that really shouldn't be language dependent...

You are assuming the presence of fundamental programming skills.

However, many of the modern development tools/environments allow 
"developers"  to create applications without ever learning those 
fundamentals. A few clicks, a few drags, a few drops and presto! you can 
call yourself a programmer.

With no such tools available, people of our generation HAD to learn the 
fundamentals, so for us changing languages or development environments is 
pretty straightforward... except when we find ourselves in one of these 
newfangled IDEs where fundamentals don't matter.

-- 
Michael C. Mattias
Tal Systems Inc.
Racine WI
mmattias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]