I'm not sure why the topic of the poll is
dangerous... I thought of it as "though
provoking"... I mentally put people who post
on this list in various categories, and
thought the results weren't surprising.

In particular, I thought the number of people
in the 3rd category (much better phrased by
Mr. Luf than myself, apologies to anyone
I might have offended) was interesting. It
seems to me that thats a case of companies
giving engineers work to do that they need
more guidance to do, and the engineer having
to balance continued employment with lack
of experience... I have certainly seen my
share of people who think that

"I know how to run the software that does XXX"

and

"I can do XXXX"

are the same thing. I think that the time spent
by the first category people on this and other
lists, at least starts people thinking about
what the differences are...


=Shannon
(taking philosopher hat off)