> And yet, still, 90% of lawyers and doctors are only maginally competent > at best...
And 95% of all statistical claims are made up on the fly. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chet Gardiner > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty! > > > And yet, still, 90% of lawyers and doctors are only maginally competent > at best... > > As for plumbers and carpenters -- "certification" is not designed to > weed out the incompetent but rather to raise the bar for entry into > lucrative professions to the favored few. In many cases, originally, it > was to keep out the Blacks and the Irish. <s> > > Basic business skills are irrelevant to a good computer program and, if > you believe the many pro-m$ types, so are ethics... > > > > Ted Roche wrote: > > >On 1/18/07, Chet Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>The real reason is that programming is an art, not a science... > >> > >>Can't certify art... > >> > >> > >> > > > >Practitioners might argue that good practice of many professions > >qualify as art: medicine, law, plumbing, carpentry... basic > >proficiency and perhaps basic business skills and ethics ought to be > >testable, shouldn't they? > > > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
