Re: OT: The Geek defense

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:36:14 -0600, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>You're right. And when these new "programmers" face a situation that
>requires actual programming skills, they're lost. I think a demarcation
>between the two different skills would be useful. Perhaps something
>like "application assembler" rather than "programmer" would be a
>better description for such people. It always gets me when people
>who can only write HTML (for example) claim to be "programmers."
>It's like a typist claiming to be an "author."

That's what people said about the newcomers who only used compilers to
do what they wanted, instead of actually programming.