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

On May 28, 9:33 pm, NoGodForMe <religionki...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

I don't mind the cube so much as long as my employer changes out my
straw every week, I'm happy.

<chewing his cud>
:-)
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