だまし絵シリーズ

And here's the clincher: I noticed (and confirmed this with a recruiter
friend) that Windows API programmers here in New York City who know C++ and
COM programming earn about $130,000 a year, while typical Web programmers
using managed code languages (Java, PHP, Perl, even ASP.NET) earn about
$80,000 a year. That's a huge difference, and when I talked to some friends
from Microsoft Consulting Services about this they admitted that Microsoft had
lost a whole generation of developers. The reason it takes $130,000 to hire
someone with COM experience is because nobody bothered learning COM
programming in the last eight years or so, so you have to find somebody really
senior, usually they're already in management, and convince them to take a job
as a grunt programmer, dealing with (God help me) marshalling and monikers and
apartment threading and aggregates and tearoffs and a million other things
that, basically, only Don Box ever understood, and even Don Box can't bear to
look at them any more.

    -- Joel Spolsky
    -- "How Microsoft Lost the API War" ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html )

 <sussman>  ghudson: what OS did you compile the tarball on?
 <ghudson>  Red Hat 9.
 <sussman>  me too, hm.
         *  sussman wishes he were still using freebsd, for diversity's
            sake
         *  fitz wishes sussman were a chocolate cake
    <fitz>  mmmm... cake...

    -- #svn, Freenode