note davorg <blockquote><i>There are far too many people who (attempt to) perform programming as a income activity who aren't really programmers. If you can't program careful enough to not need a debugger, then either slow down your rate of coding, or pick a different profession. Please.</i></blockquote> <p>This is, of course, true. There aren't enough <i>real</i> programmers around to cover all the programming jobs. And as the demand for IT staff increases the problem will only get worse.</p> <p>I was contemplating starting to run Perl courses in the UK, but perhaps I should just run programming courses first...</p> <p>... or perhaps "programming" isn't something that can be taught.</p> -- <br> &lt;<a href="http://www.dave.org.uk">http://www.dave.org.uk</a>> <p> "Perl makes the fun jobs fun<br> and the boring jobs bearable" - me</p> 48474 48635