On 2/13/10 7:07 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > >>> Surely there's no shortage of .NET jobs, but is the same true of >>> Python? Can Ed or someone else chime in? >> >> There are tons of .Net jobs, just like 10 years ago there were tons of >> VB jobs. And like then, you'll be competing with a bunch of cut-rate n00bs >> who read a book or two and are now ".Net developers". > > This article explains why there are so many openings for .Net > programmers: > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/nobody-hates-software-more-than-software-developers.html > ( -or- http://j.mp/aCDpDz ) > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > One of the (many) unfortunate side effects of choosing a career in software > development is that, over time, you learn to hate software. I mean really > hate it. With a passion. Take the angriest user you've ever met, multiply > that by a thousand, and you still haven't come close to how we programmers > feel about software. Nobody hates software more than software developers. > Even now, writing about the stuff is making me physically angry.
Hmm, I love developing software. I get challenged all the time, and I enjoy overcoming those challenges. Sometimes the challenges are hard to overcome and I get frustrated, but never angry. I do remember feeling angry when I was developing in Foxpro though, and I'm certain I would feel angry instead of healthily-challenged if I were a .NET developer today. The difference could come down to feeling free versus feeling locked-in. > Isn't that an odd attitude coming from people whose job it is to write > software? How can we hate what we get paid to create every day? > > David Parnas explained in an interview: > > Q: What is the most often-overlooked risk in software engineering? > A: Incompetent programmers. There are estimates that the number of > programmers needed in the U.S. exceeds 200,000. This is entirely misleading. > It is not a quantity problem; we have a quality problem. One bad programmer > can easily create two new jobs a year. Hiring more bad programmers will just > increase our perceived need for them. If we had more good programmers, and > could easily identify them, we would need fewer, not more. Well, I guess we should be glad there are incompetent programmers in the world to make us look good! Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
