Oh, Reeeaalllyyy? (Score 1)

Gosh - it's Decline and Fall of the American Programmer - 1999. After programming more than 20 years, 15 as an independant, working on projects around the globe, I'm here to tell you that this is hogwash. Annoy my global friends this may, but we have the best here. Ever hear of the brain drain? Anybody good any place else on Terra makes their way to the good old USA - better access to the latest technology, the Net, Mountain Dew, - and, most importantly, the best rates for us mercenary contract programmers. And while an MS from a foreign U may look impressive on paper, it may not have been earned studying the latest. And that's assuming what's taught in college is worth a damn out in the real world - a subject for a whole 'nother poll. And the criteria for this - Sorry CNN - your metrics bite the big one. Here's an example - one newbie at a clients' site recently wrote a COBOL program of 25,000 lines. Turned out to be a pig performance-wise. I rewrote it in C in 2,000. But according to this metric, I'm inefficient and lazy. Sure - can you say "code bloat" anyone?