Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

anoneds@netscape.net (Ben Yates) wrote in message news:<8c160850.0306160242.17ce0076@posting.google.com>...
> No, they actually laid-off those of us who have been "programming" for
> 20 years, those of us who know what an algorithm is, who can actually
> design, program, and implement. Instead, they have hired those from
> the "programmer mills" who have just been taught how to use Wizards to
> create programs, who know how to cut-n-paste an object on the screen,
> but who don't know shit about writing the program behind the scenes to
> actually perform anything more complicated than a simple report (which
> is all handled for them too.)
> Funny thing is, these people are being replaced too - their jobs have
> been exported to South America or India...

*sigh*

And since I'm middle-of-the road, I'm unemployable...

-uso.