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From: pereira@alta.research.att.com (Fernando Pereira)
Subject: Re: are there any Prolog JOBS out there?
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In article <94248.215129U54294@uicvm.uic.edu> <U54294@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> My contribution was to point out that, contrary to several
> remarks, this change in technique mentioned above does not necessarily
> translate into increased employment opportunity for those interested
> in programming/model-building at the macroeconomic level. In other
> words, while the proferred advice is good at the personal level (in fact,
> any other course would be economic suicide right now), the field of
> opportunity FOR ALL won't necessarily broaden.
Agreed. I certainly did not suggest otherwise, I just suggested some
attributes that may make a programmer more marketable in the business
environment that is emerging. Furthermore, I do not think there will
be *less* demand for suitably qualified programmers, whatever the
change in programming technology. The reason for that is that
computing hardware is growing exponentially in power, while programmer
brains are pretty much constant, and programming technology doesn't
seem to be growing in productivity at a rate comparable to that of
available cycles and memory. One might argue that demand of digital
goods and services may is the true limiting factor, and certainly some
early stumbles related to the information highway hype may be early
indicators of potential strangulation of demand. But it's far too
early to say for sure.

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Fernando Pereira
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