Charles
>>I think the intensity of the "boredom" is ample evidence of the insecurity underlying it.
Well I used to moan on this topic in 1995 and I'm completely bored with it, and increasingly annoyed that some people *still* beat sensationally on the doom and gloom drum all these years later as if we have not noticed.
>>If a 21 year old person came to you right now and said, "I'd like to get a job as a programmer. What language should I learn?" could you in good conscience recommend Foxpro as a first choice?
No, I'd find out why they wanted to be a programmer though. IMHO the golden age of programming draws to a close, our tools will continue to get smarter and smarter till they are smarter than we are. Hey, maybe I'll invade programing forums to announce that every day and see how long it takes before people start getting insecure at me ;-)
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
