From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 23:46:53 MDT
John Marlow wrote:
>
> True to an extent, but with staggering exceptions. witness the film,
> literary, and music worlds--truckloads of moderately-gifted and
> completely untalented persons making truckloads of money. Oh--and
> lest we forget--politics.
>
The same is true in every industry I am aware of. It is certainly true
in software. The elite are always a small minority. The masses of
programming folks definitely fall in the "moderately-gifted" category.
Some don't, imho of course, even belong there.
- samantha
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