Howie Goodell writes
>This
>experience suggested an analogy: your Access programmers are not
>Computer Scientists or even Software Engineers; they are high-tech
>tradesmen.
Another analogy is with the medical profession. Only a surgeon can perform
major operations, but a nurse can perform very minor ones. The computing
industry has not defined what sorts of tasks require a professional, what
may be done by trained enthusiasts, and what end-users can be trusted with.
I suspect that technology is currently moving too fast to establish these
definitions. Eventually things will settle down into some sort of pattern.
(That's not to say there won't be advances, just that the advances will fit
broad categories.) Only then can we realistically insist on professional
accreditation for certain tasks.
Dave W Farthing
School of Computing
University of Glamorgan, UK
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit
the target."
