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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (10360)	6/11/2004 11:17:58 PM
From: Sampat Saraf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

"I was a software engineer for 33 years. Your attitude about "skill level required" was typical..." Though I didn't work as much as you but actually, I have also been a software developer for the past twenty years and I agree that if corporations had hired properly skilled programmers we may not have had some of the problems with spaghetti and difficult to maintain code. Because of my experience in both Indian and US software industry, I would say that there used to be a difference in US and Indian programmers back in 70-80's. At that time, US employers cared very little about education levels of programmers while in India, programmers primarily hailed from coveted schools such as IITs. However, the situation has changed drastically in India now. Now, quick and half-baked diploma graduates are hired to meet the soaring demand in the software field in India and they are no longer only coming from the coveted schools. They are writing equally messy code.

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (10360)	6/14/2004 8:50:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

1. I have seen wage statistics that showed no real wage gain when compared to ~20 years ago. I've seen similar stats but also stats that showed that when benefits are factored in people make more and other stats that show that we spend more, even when you adjust for debt levels and stats that show we have bigger houses, a larger % of households with common appliances, more luxuries and more travel and entertainment. For example total inflation adjusted recreation spending grew 9.1 % per year from 1970 to 1990 (I don't have more recent data) Tim