With a number of the modern languages, there is a lot of code that is mind numbing boring and tedious. What is a couple of lines in unibasic is hundreds of lines in .Net, Java, etc. What is being outsourced is all the tedious unclever stuff such as defining variables and validations and other functions that don't require smarts but are responsible for a volume of the work in these languages.
Ironically as in manufacturing, automation is replacing the manual repetitive work. The next release of .Net is reducing a lot of this unnecessary work. If you can structure coding to be like a production line catering for less skilled people, then you can automate it and that is what .Net is doing. Hence automation is going to kill the lucrative outsourcing business in the end. The key to survival is being resourceful, adaptive and innovative. The days of coding drones is becoming numbered. What businesses need are people who come up with innovative and clever ways of doing things that improves the bottom line. David Jordan _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
