There you go! Thinking like an engineer (logical) and not management :-) I have met a few $100K+ programmers out there, but none were VB'ers. Just a bunch of "namby pamby" C and C++ wizards :-)
Fred > -----Original Message----- > From: John Elrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 6:16 PM > To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org > Subject: Re: [sqlite] Improving performance of SQLite. Anyone heard > ofDeviceSQL? > > > James Steward wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 15:30 -0600, Fred Williams wrote: > > > >> A hundred or so Visual Basic programmers are cheaper to replace and > >> "maintain" than one good Delphi/C++ programmer. ;-) That > is the reason > >> management likes "Visual XXXX." Been there, learned that. > Hire the > >> staff from the largest pool, not the most effective. > Besides it's damn > >> hard to be a prima donna, when your replacement is ready > to jump off > >> that forklift and learn a cushy job. > >> > > For some reason your original never showed up in my mailbox. Pity<g> > > When you can hire a forklift operator to program (well, that is), you > can just as likely have the computer program itself at zero > labor cost. > > Oh (100 * $45,000/year = $450,000. I'll be happy if someone > would pay > me that much<g> I should ask for a raise.) It's also an exponential > growth rate in management costs to manage one hundred people > instead of > one<g> > > > John > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
