Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination?

TheTheologian writes "In his InfoWorld column, Chad Dickerson says 'there is a level of quiet discomfort between the "scripting" versus "programming" factions in some corporate development environments in which I have participated. In some instances, executive-level technology management has held scripting languages in disdain as not being "real" languages for day-to-day problem solving, which has discouraged highly talented scripters on staff from practicing their craft. In such an environment, scripters are relegated to the lower ranks ... ' He goes on to say that some companies will assign Java and C++ programmers tasks that take them weeks but could be done by Perl or Python programmers in a few hours. Is it true that some companies are so overcome with code bias they'd assign weeks of unnecessary work rather than give it to the scripting untouchables?"

Comments

And you know what's really funny?

[Anonymous Coward]

I got this FP by writing a perl script.

W00t!!!!

--The AC

... same base skill: logic

[Artful Codger]

Yes programmers get more prestige... so I became one. Employers provided the opportunity to learn Java, so I did. Nonetheless, although the "programmer" tag gets me in the door for jobs, the additional scripting stuff (Perl, Javascript) often adds real value.

But good code is good code. A good scripter is more valuable than a bad programmer.

What really gets me is how out of the vaunted realms of "programming" has come some godawful bastards like XSL syntax and struts logic tags. They are seriously fucked up.

I feel biased agaisn't for not being Indian

[Billly Gates]

After all, an Indian can do my job for 5k a year and is more educated according to various lobbiests from the software industry. But I guess we still do not have enough IT workers so we must increase h1b1 visa's to eleminate the problem.

Re:Holy Fucking Gator Shit Bitch

[Gordonjcp]

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