Kevin said >>I don't think the shoddy programming issue is localized to Pick/MV people >>only. Shoddy programming has eroded the confidence in our entire profession >>irrespective of language, database, tools, etc. and yes, application >>development is a profession - and all that implies - not a career nor merely >>a job.
I agree with what Kevin says, but it's not the programmer's fault as much as management. (and I have spent more time in management than programming). When I was trained in the early 80s, I was led to expect that I would go out into a maintenance programming job. In the following 25 years, I have never had the luxury of keeping up with maintenance programming. There are always more requests piling up and not enough resources to complete them. The companies I have worked for treat IT people as undesireable costs, not asset generators. This is further complicated by the fact that the field is exploding in terms of the number of areas that there are to learn about. Based on what I see coming out of University's. nobody is taking time to teach the importance of writing maintainable code. I suspect that programming is not the only area where this is happening either. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
