[geeks] my head just went explodey

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 @ 14:32 -0400, Joshua Boyd said:

> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:30:19AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > No one seems to understand that we are professionals, and many (most?)
> > of us have college degrees, and tackling new things and relearing is
> > daily, and routine for us.
> 
> Sometimes I wonder how relevent the college degree is.

If it came from a good degree program, then it is highly relevant.

If it is one of those you got by learning a single language on a PC
(usually Java or C++) in college, then it is worthless.

Unfortunately even some formerly good schools have basically turned into
a place where you learn to be buzzword compliant, and this only makes
the problem worse.

The other thing you have to fight is the mindless push for Java, C++,
and C#, none of which is that great, and which are often a liability for
current projects.

Worse, a lot of old, reliable code is being rewritten in one of those
languages, for mostly arbitrary reasons.


-- 
shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- [There is a limit to how stupid people really
are -- just as there's a limit to the amount of hydrogen in the Universe. 
There's a lot, but there's a limit.  -- Dave C. Barber on a.f.c.  ]