Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
- Subject: Re: [OT] AppleScripter's Salary
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:00:04 +0000
John C. Welch wrote:
The idea that you can build professional workflow scripts for large-
scale
use in ANY language without requiring one whit of programming
conceptual
knowledge or discipline is silly. Whether you have those concepts
taught to
you or you pick them up on your own, you're going to learn them, or
you're
going to not do big scripts, regardless of language.
+5 Informative, that man.
Doug: To put it another way, it's the specialist domain knowledge and
experience - NOT the generalist programming skills - that is earning
the big bucks here. Folk who know their loops from variables and
functions from conditionals are ten-a-penny these days. Folk who know
their dot-gain from their grid theory are in somewhat shorter supply,
while those who know their dot-gain and grid theory AND can beat out
something that approaches functional code to take care of it all
automatically are even rarer.
If there's a genuine confusion here, it's because the term
"AppleScripter" tends to get used as a convenient but misleading
shorthand for "Print Publishing Workflow Development Expert". e.g. I
can script applications in five different languages (six if I keep
the Camel book permanently open;), but I simply don't have the level
of industry experience that a Shane or a Ray or a Hanaan has, which
is why they're the ones earning the big bucks and I'm not. (the
rotters;p)
HTH
has
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