Re: Are (Pick) basic and its programmers "obsolete"?

On May 29, 1:22 pm, mvdbman <mvdb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 29, 10:43 am, Joe <lu...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:



NoGodForMe <religionki...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:rBo%j.23620$255.6487@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Ron Walenciak wrote:
I have a client that has had difficulty finding good Pick programmers
(no, they don't want to hire consultants/contractors); as a subset of
that, they then looked to see whether Basic programmers were
available, and the universities had few Basic classes, but lots of
Java, .net, etc.) So, that led them to believe that not only was Pick
Basic obsolete, but that Basic itself was obsolete. That (along with
other marketing issues that are too long to go into) led to thoughts
of converting from D3 to something else; Universe would be a good
choice if they could be convinced to stay with a multivalue data
model (there are some pluses there, obviously), except for the Basic
resource issue.

I can argue the other issues that came up, and I'm convinced that
looking at schools wasn't the right way to come up with an answer to
this resource question, but I'm not sure how else it can be negated.
Keeping emotion out of it, are there any statistics or studies on the
numbers of Basic programmers in the work force or sources of Basic
programmers for the future?

Thanks,
Ron

Pick programmers are becoming obsolete because they're stuck in little
6x6 cubes or desks located directly outside the bosses door. I know
this, I work in a 6x6 cube.

I recently went on an interview, and the place where I would work was
a desk literally located outside the bosses 20x20 office. I had no
interest once I saw the working area. It was basically an office that
had 6 people in it. 2 desks side by side, then a cluster of cubes.
Yet the conference room that sat empty over looking the parking is
20x20, so is the bosses office.

If you want to attract good people, put them in offices.

I'm sick of the cube world.

That's why programmers are "retiring" and finding something else to
do.

Forget offices. Telecommuting is the proverbial carrot on the stick.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/carrot.html

B

Doh! I forgot the ;-)
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