From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article , Rich   wrote:   
   >D  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>> We also have a bunch of IT programs which are really business school   
   >>> programs with some computing added.  I think those are pretty much   
   >>> worthless, but they get a lot of students.   
   >>   
   >> I think maybe those programs try to sell that you can get a nice   
   >> FAANG job with 300k starting salary with very little effort.  ;)   
   >   
   >Those are also the same "puppy farms" that curn out developers who only   
   >know how to string together calling already written libraries to do   
   >various tasks.   
      
   This is true...BUT those developers are getting highly-paid jobs stringing   
   together library calls that they don't understand.  Just like they were   
   promised.  And then WE have to deal with the issues their code creates.   
      
   >But ask them to do something for which they can't find an already   
   >created library, and they are hopelessly lost.   
      
   I was told by an interviewee that it is much faster to do a sort in   
   Java than C because in Java it only takes one line of code whereas in   
   C it takes many lines of code.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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