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?"

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Is that pigeon sh*t in your eye?

[BurKaZoiD]

as scripting languages require less total code

Tell that to the ravenous VBScript/ASP f*cktards I work with. Jesus Christ, I think these guys have exhausted every possible variable name of all time in their code, in every application they write! The mere mention of instrinsic functions and they get that glassy-eyed stare. And, trying to get these people to write code using VBScript classes (for re-use) is like trying to pull teeth from a Gundark. MIS majors should NOT be allowed to code. (I didn't hire them).

Scripter? Programmer? Who cares!

[esanbock]

They're both unemployed!