Subj : Re: Industry Calls for More Foreign Programmers
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 04:40 pm

spinoza1111@yahoo.com wrote:

> 
> I do agree, Jim (despite my other post) that in many cases, offshore
> people will lack cultural knowledge helpful in designing and
> implementing data systems.
> 
> A simple example is the fact that here in China, dates are written day,
> month, year and not as in the USA.
> 
> But the importance of US-cultural knowledge will decline if the US
> loses economic importance over the next ten years. And, the fact that
> the current Administration has completely dropped the ball on the
> economic threat that is China, while foolishly, indeed criminally,
> invading Iraq, means that here and in Paris (where I traveled and
> worked recently) people no longer look to the USA for economic
> leadership.
> 
> Why develop a US-centric software application, with month/day/year
> dates or temperatures in Fahrenheit (or whatever grotty details) when
> global programmers can develop a customizable international system
> instead? If you develop the application for the US, and the US market
> dries up because of Bush's incompetence, you've wasted your time.
> 
> An international developer (whether he or she is Indian, or American)
> may be culturally a better bet than some developer who punches out at
> Unicode characters and calls code he can't understand "Sanskrit".
> 

Cool. Now tie global warming to programming productivity....

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