and sometimes downright fishy
thoughts on Technology and Leadership
by Herb Bowie
Elimination of Programmers
Over the years, executives have backed their desire to eliminate programmers with staggering funds. Dozens of simplistic schemes have been heaped with money and praise on the promise — as yet not kept — of going directly from a sales proposal to a working data-processing system. Their touching faith in the magic of technology should serve as inspiration to those of us who daily bend our backs to the programmer's burden. Perhaps their wishes — though they can surely never be fulfilled — should give us pause — make us lift our noses from the coding pad or the terminal — and consider this human activity of ours from a human point of view.
From the Book The Psychology of Computer Programming, 1971, ISBN 0932633420
Copyright © 1971 by Litton Educational Publishing, Inc.
No. 219