I am sure that the Chinese are good programmers but software is now the epicenter of strategic advantage and America needs to the knowledge domestically or become a third world backwater. Face it you either make the things you need yourself or you are dependent and must pay others either with money or servitude.
Francais double speak. A loaded crap samwich to foster tech transfer to the chicoms for cheep cheep labor.
Nothing more or less.
>>I am sure that the Chinese are good programmers but software is now the epicenter of strategic advantage and America needs to the knowledge domestically or become a third world backwater.<<
I agree completely, but programmers born and bred here in the USA don’t get that they don’t command salaries like back in my (COBOL) day.
Mind you I am doing programming right this very minute, but it is within the context of also doing analysis, specifications, project planning, integration and user/technical training and documentation.
Many/most kids today cannot do all those things. Most might be able to do one or 2.