Re: What to Do?

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>]

"E. Robert Tisdale" wrote:

> It's pretty hard to get a job as a professional programmer
> if you only know one computer programming language.
> Most of the subscribers to this newsgroup are amateur programmers.
> They are hired and paid to do something else
> and programming is just a low level skill
> that they are expected to "pick-up" in the course of their careers
> to help them with their work.
>

I'm not sure why you think most of the posters here are amateur programmers?
We have a fair amount of students who post here, but I get the impression
that the bulk of us actually earn a living every day by working with
software. Maybe some of us don't use Ada every day - our jobs may demand the
use of other languages. Perhaps because many of us build devices that use
software as only one component you think that we are primarily electrical
engineers or mechanical engineers, etc? I think its pretty clear that at
least most of the people who post here regularly seem to have a good deal of
knowledge concerning software engineering, language design, practical
software experience, etc. If they are "amateurs" then they must be extremely
skilled "amateurs".

MDC
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