On a Proposed Programmers' Guild

Rideau asks who will certify the certifiers and who will certify the certifier certifiers ad adnseaum an concluded that there is no one qualified, so go away. I suspect the malpractitioners that Sussman wants to eliminate already have their MS certifications and their Sun certifications. All us old hands will be grandfathered in because of experience. The people that it will inconvenience are the self-taught, partially degreed, and otherwise uncredentialed, just those people who became programmers because they loved it. I dont need no stinking badge.

Is this thing surfacing again?

It was fashionable several years ago for Professional Engineering Societies to advocate for a P.Eng. designation requirement for all Software Engineers.

I thought the idea had since died out.