Dave, I understand where you are coming from and am not discounting the value of a CS background. The statement that had been made seemed to indicate that a CS background was required. Our types of jobs are too varied to be lumped together like doctors and accountants and lawyers. You wouldn't see accountants on a mailing list debating the terms bookkeeper and accountant. Accounting IS learned from books. When it comes time to recognize revenue at the end of the period you don't have to take into consideration the hardware and software available to you, you don't have to worry about load balancing or tight code or scalability, you apply principles of accounting to determine the revenue amount. Or at least you're supposed to. ;) Sure, there is some interpretation that takes place in certain industries, and the criticism that GAAP is a little behind the times may be valid, but you don't hire a bookkeeper to do that interpretation.
Personally, I would love to spend some time in a true development environment to learn more about software development (or is that software programming ... wait ... nooooo), and with the layoffs going on I just might get that chance some day! Hopefully my lack of a CS degree won't be a problem <grin>, 'cuz I really don't want to go back to writing Excel macros to automate accounting procedures! Dan -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: programmer vs. developer I think you're selling short the value of a CS background. Sure, there are lots of people with CS degrees who lack problem-solving skills. There are incompetents in every field, except for those fields in which incompetence is weeded out automatically (incompetent soldiers being more likely to die in combat, for example). That's not much of an argument against the value of a CS degree, though. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
