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You might be right. But when they say analytically bright I think of
Ph.D. in Mathematics since many universities are (and have) down sizing
(ed). There are a great number of very smart people who where not able
to teach because the universities and colleges were having budget
crunches. I have a friend who was a visiting math professor for too
long. He finally threw in the towel and went to a computer firm. He was
a very good math teacher and a good person to boot. He also knew his way
around c++ and Java.
Harley
D J Hadley wrote:
> Does GIGO ring any bells. Cleaning it up is what pays my bills.
> Garbage In - Garbage Out. Kind of reminds me of when Lotus 123 hit
> corporate america. Everyone just accepted the printed spreadsheet as
> the unchallenged truth, that is until the auditors took a serious look
>
> at the numbers. Or maybe "Penny Wise - Dollar Foolish fits better.
>
> Harley Meyer wrote:
> >
> > >From time to time we discuss broader issues that surround TA. I was
>
> > reading about one of the companies that I have an investment in. I
> found
> > this to be very interesting and innovative with respect to how a
> company
> > handles the cost of labor in a tight labor market. Just another
> example
> > of how technology can make us productive.
> >
> > --------------excerpt-----------
> > ``We believe a distinctive benefit our proprietary software provides
> is
> > that it enables us to employ analytically bright people who don't
> have
> > any programming training. Recent hires without prior programming
> > experience are functioning as competent analysts in less than a
> month.
> > This gives us the ability to increase production capacity rapidly
> and at
> > a lower cost than originally anticipated, since we will not have to
> > compete for scarce, experienced COBOL programmers.''
> >
> > -----------------------------------
> >
> > Harley
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