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Techies and Modelers, Ted Neward: And on the flip side, we have your average Visual Basic programmer, who probably couldn't even tell you how many bytes one of their objects/classes/whatever consumed, and probably didn't care much, either. Their job was to come in, write a program, and leave, and they did--over and over again (many times, reweriting the same application because "nobody ever thought of that particular feature, it'll be easier to do it over again")

Mike Devlin, General Manager IBM Rational: "How do you help a VB [Visual Basic]-type developer or somebody that's just developing HTML Web pages or who thinks of themselves more as a creative artist?" Devlin asked. "How do you help them contribute in a software project? [...] One of the problems with these VB-type solutions is you can quickly produce a bunch of spaghetti code that's unmaintainable and hard to evolve if you're not careful"

What can be done to help these poor folks? Sounds like Ted and IBM may agree: turn them into modelers.