>So I would be, frankly, astonished if it could be shown that >*everyone* is equally trainable in programming to a >professional standard, any more than it could be shown that >everyone could learn to be a professional golfer or a >professional artist or a professional mathematician or a >professional teacher.
Actually I think that most people could be trained to these levels or pretty close to them with sufficient effort. However, people can't be trained to be virtuosi - that requires something more which may well be a geek gene, or a sheer bloodymindedness gene or just some lucky physical accident of body configuration, or all three. L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
