On Jan 11, 2008 8:24 AM, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Based merely on your description, sounds like what these guys want to > be are some high-paid non-replaceable ivory tower academics. While I > agree that some languages are more productive than others, I think it > would be naive to claim that these aspects of languages are the main > causes of poor software quality and software project failures. >
Not quite an accurate depiction of what the article says. You might want to read it, it's actually pretty reasonable if you try to see what they're saying instead of knee-jerking. What they want is not ivory-tower academics, but people who actually know how computers work and how software is interpreted by machines. They also want people who are able to use currently available (but not widely used) tools to write secure, reliable software. What they don't want is people who only know how to plug pre-built library functions together in a GUI app-builder without any real understanding of what they're telling the computer to do. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
