"... smart people don't want to work on it." That's encouraging. At the same time, there are some clearly talented authors of networking code working in adver

"... smart people don't want to work on it." That's encouraging. At the same time, there are some clearly talented authors of networking code working in advertising (well, at least one). Impressive. I cannot comment on the idea of "markets" but I can offer an opinion about people. If they can work on what they _want_ to rather than what they believe they _are forced_ to, I think that's cool. Dennis Ritchie once said in an interview he could have chosen to work on calculating missile trajectories or some similar "difficult, interesting" problem, but instead he chose not to, and ending up working something like C. I'm not sure anyone asked him to volunteer that information, he just did it. If my curiousity oversteps a line, I apologize. I wish I had the programming talent that I see some people (few) have and I just wonder what it must feel like to have that talent.