>>Heck, with your skills you could make considerably more by joining the >federal bureaucracy. The only problem is that you can be subject to whims >of management, they might suddenly decide to turn you into a PB >programmer (aagh!):~)
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>Hey! That must be a universal government edict this quarter! I sat through two weeks of PB training, as we are "gearing up" for PB use. Thank heavens for that loo-o-o-ong government lead time, I don't expect to be forced to PB for a year or two.

May be PB will die by that time... :)