>>>It is fortunate there are those with a capacity to work year after year without ever learning anything new or getting excited about advances in their field.
>>>If I were to project my own personality on those cobol people I'd have to assume that the most important "benefit" the employer would have to offer would be 24/7 suicide watch. ( cobol .. hell, Foxpro ! )
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>To build on the Keynote from SWFox: quality comes from minimizing variation and standardizing, not constantly reinventing and starting over. Most industries figured this out a lot quicker and even much newer industries are miles further down Quality Road. Meanwhile developers think they'll be allowed to behave like Picasso forever.
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With some exceptions, most developers do not tend to be good graphic designers (me included).