Adam wrote:
> (Oh, and it's not just sysadmins.  Remember "visual programming"?  Each time
> it gets reinvented, it's going to let business users do their own programming
> and get rid of all those overpaid programmers.  Yeah, right.  I still see lots
> of programmers.  Just, hardly any of them write in assembler or COBOL anymore.
> Although 4GLs haven't exactly taken over the world...)
>
Trevor wrote:
> Nice reply, Adam, guess the rest of MUUG is off to the cottage, or not
> an admin, or too busy shaking in their boots to reply :-)  As we both
> said, no reason for anyone to get scared about any of this stuff as
> long as your skillset is deep and wide.
 

No cottage for me.  I'm still here and enjoying this whole thread, which strikes a real chord with me.  I've made many similar observations in my IT life.  Even as far back as circa 1988-1990, I remember an IT journal article entitled "The End of Programmers (Again)".  Non-programmers generally don't even understand or appreciate the concepts of algorithms and processes, and seem to think that a simple script without conditional logic/branching can do everything.