On Feb 25, 1:38 pm, rep_movsd <rep.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a very typical reaction - there are a lot of mediocre programmers
> in India, but assuming all of them are, is pretty naive.
Just because someone chose this profession partially for
financial reasons doesn't necessarily mean he's mediocre. And
all of the Indian programmers I've known have been very good
(but then, I've not known as many as I've known French, German
or British programmers).
> There are people everywhere, who are in the industry with career as a
> primary goal, whereas those of us who are passionate about it, have
> been doing it for a major part of our life (I for one, since I was
,
> and will continue doing it until we're senile, whether we're paid for
> it or not.
I don't think it's necessarily a binary choice. If I had
a totally free choice about what to do fifty hours a week,
uninfluenced by pecunary constraints, it wouldn't be
programming. But I do like programming as well, and if my
profession were something else, I'd probably do some programming
as a hobby.
--
James Kanze