dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) (09/15/89)
In article <23950@louie.udel.EDU> detert@lognet2.af.mil (CMS David K. Detert) writes: [a great deal deleted] >Imagine, secretaries programming, who would have ever thought? I am sure that David was just making a sarcastic remark on Jerry's backward thinking, so this is not a flame against him. This is, however, a flame against all of those cretins who have expressed the opinion that just because somebody types, files and generally keeps an office running in spite of appallingly low wages, that they are somehow intellectually inferior. Please remember that, if it were not for secretaries, the whole industrialized world would die a sudden a noisy death. Computer programmers are no better than secretaries. In fact, they are generally paid much more for work of considerably less value. Kevin -- Kevin Dooley UUCP - {uunet,pyramid}!utai!helios.physics!dooley Physics Dept. BITNET - dooley@utorphys U. of Toronto INTERNET - dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca
fox@cs.cs.columbia.edu (David Fox) (09/16/89)
dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) writes: >detert@lognet2.af.mil (CMS David K. Detert) writes: >>Imagine, secretaries programming, who would have ever thought? >I am sure that David was just making a sarcastic remark on Jerry's >backward thinking, so this is not a flame against him... Perhaps what was meant was that most secretaries have better things to do than to struggle with conventional programming systems on conventional computers. David Fox fox@cs.columbia.edu