I have a client that has had difficulty finding good Pick programmers (no,
they don't want to hire consultants/contractors); as a subset of that,
they
then looked to see whether Basic programmers were available, and the
universities had few Basic classes, but lots of Java, .net, etc.) So, that
led them to believe that not only was Pick Basic obsolete, but that Basic
itself was obsolete. That (along with other marketing issues that are too
long to go into) led to thoughts of converting from D3 to something else;
Universe would be a good choice if they could be convinced to stay with a
multivalue data model (there are some pluses there, obviously), except
for
the Basic resource issue.
I can argue the other issues that came up, and I'm convinced that looking
at
schools wasn't the right way to come up with an answer to this resource
question, but I'm not sure how else it can be negated. Keeping emotion out
of it, are there any statistics or studies on the numbers of Basic
programmers in the work force or sources of Basic programmers for the
future?
Thanks,
Ron
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