KiwiCoder

Tangential Alan Moore - Alternative thought for the day at http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9669000/9669590....

Deceptively hard to answer. * Cost of living varies a lot. * London is kind of a country in its own right. * Commuting in the UK can be £5k or more.

If you compare to the national average salary for full-time employees (which is around £32k) then most programmers are well paid.

See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8151355.stm "What is a big salary"

Which languages are you talking about?

Yeah, the ONS should have a category for the industry of programmers.

As far as I know, ICT is a superset.

Just in case you're talking to me, HarrietJones, I do actually say how it could be done: with the Clear() method.

Most do say exactly that, then we have a chat about what they might do instead. Many immediately say, "um, is there a Clear or RemoveAll method?!" It's all over within a few minutes, we move on. The bigger picture is always going to trump the details, until the day the details have piled up and can no longer be ignored. It's the great big technical-debt elephant in the room.