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But I really believe the future of software is affected more by having better programmers rather than having better languages. On average, I believe the qualit

by kleiba 13y ago

But I really believe the future of software is affected more by having better programmers rather than having better languages. On average, I believe the quality of programmers will decline, simply because as they demand rises more and more people will come to the field that don't do it out of interest/passion but because it a profitable profession. Not that this is already the case today - I think it's a trend that's already begun and will probably continue this way.

toadi 13y ago
This was already happening during the first dot.com boom. The time I studied CS. In Belgium banks would provide cars and a paycheck while you were still graduating in your last year. This attracted a lot of people who weren't really passionated about programming. Now years later I was hiring during the bank crisis and I interviewed CS students who got their degree but couldn't find a job. I couldn't understand that if you have your degree and are out of job in 2 years you haven't written a single line of code on a hobby project. But these people exist. These people will be always there in any field.