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- From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Bonus, Iniquus, Celer - Delegitus Duo)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.112116.9307@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:21:16 EST
- References: <1992Nov17.003350.2649@tcsi.com> <BxxoHu.Lpz@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BxxoHu.Lpz@cs.uiuc.edu>, johnson@cs.uiuc.edu (Ralph Johnson) writes:
- [...]
- >
- > I know families where every child is a "born leader". However,
- > it is probably not genetic. It is probably taught.
- [...]
- > Native ability is a factor in everything that we do. But in the
- > nature vs. nurture debate, I think that nurture probably is the
- > most important in the end. In the case of programmers, most of
- > the people prevented by nature from being good programmers probably
- > aren't interested anyway.
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- I don't think this belongs here. We are in the world of wild conjecture and the
- nature vs. nuture issue could go on forever. We need to speak of data here. I
- will offer one anecdotal (hah!) in support of Mark ? Mike?. In my experience
- (+17 yrs sw) leaders are born not taught.
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- George Kambic
- sd
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