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From: David Botton <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/06
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As computers become faster and the number of reusable pieces increase,
the number of technologists vs. engineers increase. As it should be.

I suspect the day is coming quick that non-programmers will drag and
drop every IS need they have.

David Botton


Ehud Lamm wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> >
> > But in the old days, I often saw people write absolutely
> > appalling assembly language, so there is no immunity here from
> > incompetence :-)
> >
> I reacll reading somewhere a quote from Sir Clive Sinclair to the effect
> that as computers grow faster programmers bacmae lass and less
> professional, and stopped being aware of how things really work.
> 
> Ehud Lamm     mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
> http://www2.cybericites.com/e/ehud