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  1. Path: newsfeeds.ans.net!btco!newsadm
  2. From: Shalom Reich <sqr1874@acf4.nyu.edu>
  3. Newsgroups: alt.computer.consultants,comp.edu,comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
  5. Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 11:40:05 -0500
  6. Organization: Bankers Trust Company
  7. Message-ID: <316006E5.DD4@acf4.nyu.edu>
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  14.  
  15. John Long wrote:
  16. > 
  17. > 
  18. > He who pays the piper calls the tune, but the piper is getting
  19. > paid to *think*.
  20. >
  21.  
  22. In many companies programmers are paid to *do*, NOT to *think*.
  23.  
  24. Rather than look at the programmer as a specialist/consultant
  25. with useful advice, some people look at programmers as if they 
  26. are the paid help.
  27.  
  28. Shalom Reich
  29.