Don't let your babies grow up to be programmers (was: up with PyGUI!)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.3701.1095836355.5135.python-list at python.org>,
Cliff Wells  <clifford.wells at comcast.net> wrote:
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		[long lament about
		loss of good life
		for US programmers]
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>This may be so.  Of course I expect the U.S. job market for software
>development will be gone by then (or simply seen as a good first job for
>students before they can get a better job at Walmart). 
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>> I also expect increasing numbers of US knowledge/information 
>> workers with portable skills to take advantage of the distortions while 
>> they last.
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>Well, I've certainly considered other lines of work, if that's what you
>mean.  
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It's worse than that, Cliff:  there's serious reason to fear
that non-price factors might soon work *against* us in the US,
almost as much as they have for us in the past.  I see this
running along a couple of lines:
*) "security"-related and DRM-IP-enforcing 
   export restrictions directly interfere
   with our ability to deliver internation-
   ally; and
*) MS hasn't been alone in habituating 
   international customers to associate US
   software with expense and unreliability.