Before you think of being a do-gooder...

[John Macdonald]

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 02:11:33AM -0400, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
> 
> It's hard to compare it to medicine and law to IT/Software Creation,  
> because they are not really things you could take up as hobbies.   
> You're not going to perform a heart transplant over the weekend, just  
> for kicks.  Whereas you can program a Perl script to back-up your  
> files and no one will care.

Sure you can compare them.  Writing a perl script to back up
their files is not, by itself, sufficient qualification to trust
someone to write the controller code for a nuclear reactor.
Putting a bandage on a child's cut and blowing their nose is
not, by itself, sufficient qualification to trust someone to
perform a heart transplant.

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