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Programming will be a skill as vital to the 21st Century, as driving was to the 20th.Both skills require investment, application, time and encouragement.
But programming is not yet seen as something we should all learn at age 17.
The benefits to society are immense. As an example I remember coming across a situation at work where the same process involved data being emailed, typed into one database (access) re-emailed, typed into another, then a spreadsheet and so on. None of this beyond the wit of a competant Perl scripter. But as a solution, the plan was to spend over 1/4 million on a new application from whizzo inc., in order to get full reporting and "control" over the process.
This is the equivalent of a company seeing everyone else saving a fortune by having this commute to work by car thing happening. SO they decide to get these car benefits. But no-one in the company can drive. So we all should buy chauffer driven cars, we will all be able to drive about now, and there really is nothing to learn. After all we control the driver, and he can give us full management reports about our driving mileage on a regular basis.
So this blog is going to be my rant on programming, IT and the way I think it should be. But hopefully less didactic than that.
posted by paul @ 4:00 PM
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