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> Programmers have become "proletarianized". The elite expert programmer who crafted a system and stayed with it for many years, finely tuning it and adding new bells and whistles with ease, has by and large been superseeded by an entire generation of college graduates who were introduced to computing in their courses, and who are hired and fired by programming shops in accord with the winds of the market place.

That's hilarious! In 1974, that was decades from actually happening.






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