I thought I agreed with the article until the last paragraph: There are FAR FAR FAR more jobs out there today for someone with the technical skills to build a

I thought I agreed with the article until the last paragraph: There are FAR FAR FAR more jobs out there today for someone with the technical skills to build a SharePoint portal, or light up a CRM instance or build a bioinformatics database than there are for someone who can build the next Python compiler. Let's stop trying to train the mass of high school students to become preservation carpenters, and instead make them very good contractors. I don't think it's a far comparison to say that compiler-writers are like preservation carpenters, practicing an unnecessary art form, because while there are already tools to make CS easier, part of the nature of technological advancement in CS is in creating better tools. But he's knocking those that...make...the tools.