Re: Growing your own programmers

[Howard Weatherly <hweatherly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean,

Point taken! I just need to stay out of the way of those forklift drivers that
*should NOT  be* :)

DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:

> Howard,
>
> In a message dated 6/18/99 1:37:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> hweatherly@dlis.dla.mil writes:
>
> > Allow me to add my 2 bits here, I have read this thread and in spite of
> >  Deans rather gloomy message, I would point out that most (programmers) were
> >  non technical before becoming programmers; I do agree that the devil is in
> >  the details though. If your intended candidates exhibit an affinity for
> >  details and like puzzles, chances are good that they can think abstractly
> >  (out of the box in current vernacular). From my perspective  there is
> >  enough discipline involved for programming to be considered a science as
> >  well as being an art, so go for it, but get someone in as an anchor,
> >  someone with extensive experience that can help the folks in the
> >  transition.
>
> Hey, I resemble that remark ;-)!  I did not intend for my message to be
> gloomy, just practical.  Even five percent is _A WHOLE LOT_ of people!  If
> you can look around your shop and not see people that are making a living at
> programming that shouldn't be, you are either:
>
> A)  Working alone.
> B)  Well managed.
> or
> C)  The one that needs to be finding a new line of work ;-).
>
> I was (albeit ineptly) trying to point out that there are a lot of people
> programming that shouldn't be, and a lot of people driving forklifts that
> should be programming.  Your puzzle analogy is _PERFECT_!  The bonus is,
> _our_ puzzles actually _do_ something once they're solved -- hopefully making
> a user's life easier...
>
> Regards!
>
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>
> "There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the
> taxidermist leaves the hide." -- Mortimer Caplin
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