From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Sad but true.  I've seen the direct result of that at $job.  And the   
   time (i.e.  cost) "we" spend finding and cleaning up the problems far   
   outstrips the cost of a better dev. who knew what they were actually   
   doing being paid more up front to write the code correctly from the   
   start.   
      
   >>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.   
      
   Ugh....  Complete misunderstanding of the intended meaning of 'faster'   
   by that one there.   
      
   Hopefully that one got passed over....   
      
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