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To: Mark Finger who wrote (11984)	9/30/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

>>> That is because there are a lot more entry level jobs, In the 1960's almost every job was filled by someone who was self taught, in most cases with no experience who was evaluated to be self-teachable, actually. And if they had a degree at all, had it in some other area. There were few schools that had anything like a CS degree then. People are coming to these jobs with better credentials now, with less on average in the area of basic skills, though. As I noted to someone else privately, a FORTRAN programmer in 1967 with 3 years experience could make 30K - in 1967 dollars. You do the math. >>> competition from foreign born programmers, Well, that's not fair Mark. I made it clear I was only talking about the H1B and economic impacts on our population, and I have no problem with a person's country of origin. Please lets not be moving the target.