From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-31 13:11:30 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!216.218.236.179.MISMATCH!news!news.he.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What to Do? References: <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:07:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.190.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 978296823 24.20.190.201 (Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:07:03 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:07:03 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3498 Date: 2000-12-31T21:07:03+00:00 List-Id: In <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net>, "E. Robert Tisdale" said several bizarre things that I believe are quite incorrect. The fastest way to becoming a paid professional "programmer" is to teach yourself PERL and take most of your wages in stock options. That's probably not a good plan in the long term, though. Most of the subscribers to this newsgroup are paid professional programmers in the wider sense of the word "programmer". Many, if not most, have spent substantial formal course time learning programming in general, later applying their knowledge to specific, and varied, application domains.