Languages and Books

[Kimball Larsen]

On Jul 22, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Bryan Sant wrote:

> On 7/22/05, Kimball Larsen <kimball at kimballlarsen.com> wrote:
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>> Most of them were Visual Basic programmers
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>> c) could only solve problems with Visual Basic.
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> Do you really think a degree would matter for these people?
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Yes, it would have.  I didn't say they were incapable of learning new  
ways of doing things, only that they had never been forced to, and  
getting motivated and out of their comfort zones with VB proved  
difficult.  Just because the corp culture was changing, they did not  
lose jobs - just got to maintain existing products, rather than  
develop new ones.

-- Kimball