Do you have a source for this interview, I'd like to read the rest. >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. >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > >-- Ed Leafe > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server]
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