>Overall, a very small percentage of developers (in any language, I think) buy books, buy magazines, go to user groups, go to conferences, or participate in online forums.
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>Tamar

Gee, and people wonder why software is almost always late, over budget and full of bugs and isn't close to what the users need.

Perhaps this is also the problem with so called 'programming' degrees. You are only taught the 'technical' aspects of programming. A degree in programming should include learning all phases of application developement from soup to nuts, including the role of the managers, analysts, developers and users.

Bob