[The Working Man]

I do think that it is a good article.

I should also point out that I think that programming really is a young persons game. And by that I mean someone new and fresh to the Art and science of Computer programming. That person can be in their teens or into their 50’s. It’s just that they need to have a fresh point of view and that wonderment that comes with playing with a new toy.

Because that way of looking at things and the desire to play with it gets burned out fairly quickly by the bureaucracy of programming.

When I first started to program we could be given a task to complete and have a trial version within days that the user could look at, comment on and come up with details or enhancements that the user had failed to point into the initial request. And within a ‘reasonable’ amount of time a new application was born and put into official use.

By the time I got out of the biz a single line of code being changed cost a half a million bucks and 6 months of time in meetings, testing, meetings, yada-yada.

[RogerFGay]

Yep, I am definitely an old guy too. Back when; I was quite fascinated with the whole idea of mastering the design and building complex systems. I probably did too many 12 hour days. I have had detours into marketing, project management, executive stuff, and other things.

One of my fondest desires for the open-source project is that some people who still have a great desire to meet the challenges of programming show up, get properly oriented to the technical concept and the project, and take over the programming tasks.

If it works out, I'll graduate (asap) into the project management and out into project related business.

[RogerFGay]

Come to think of it: make that 16 hour days. And thanks for the compliment on the article.

[grey_whiskers]

By the time I got out of the biz a single line of code being changed cost a half a million bucks and 6 months of time in meetings, testing, meetings, yada-yada.

Dilber is right on top of it as usual:

Cheers!