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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (18341)	7/13/2010 10:28:27 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

C++: Created by a guy from Denmark, Bjarne Stroustrup PHP: Created by a guy from Denmark, Rasmus Lerdorf C#: Created by a guy from Denmark, Anders Hejlsberg Very smart people in Denmark. Why do they come to America to do their work? I think you make a great point -- there are fine computer scientists all over the world and for whatever reason they continue to aggregate in the United States (in Lerdorf's case, in Canada). There are very good reasons why excellent engineers have traditionally headed to America (less now than before). but the American IT companies usually only excel on the business side, not on the technology side. Nonsense. While it is true that at least SOME other countries hold leadership positions in new technologies, the vast majority of major developments are happening here because that's where where the business is. But if you're a software engineer and you're looking for the most exciting environments you come to the USA -- and you're looking at companies like Google, Apple, SAS, Intel, etc. These are technology leaders. I do think America has lost its edge in some other fields and that's unfortunate. But if you're in IT, the best opportunities continue to exist in the US.