Re: [tlug] Looking for Summer Internship in Japan

[Noda Yoshikazu <noda.yoshikazu@example.com>]

> 30 years ago?  That would be just about when "5th Generation" was
> scaring the dickens out of American industry pundits, not to mention
> the middle of the bubble years.  *Everybody* in Japan was having a
> good time then, and competent programmers probably had it better than
> most.

Do you mean the Japan's 5th Generation project? I remember some folks
at the lab were writing something in Prologue at one corner of the room.
It didn't succeed but Japan was seeing a future in software at least back
then. Those were the good old days that would never come back. Japan had
already realized they couldn't compete in software field. Thus no more
money would be spent - not to mention on education. Japan is controlled
by some old people came from country. They usually turn down the things
they don't understand. I think what Matz is saying is correct in all aspect.


2015-03-16 10:30 GMT+09:00 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com>:
> Noda Yoshikazu writes:
>
>  > That was the time of my life, and life was sooo good. Was it because there
>  > were not enough programmers  30 years ago? Probably.
>
> 30 years ago?  That would be just about when "5th Generation" was
> scaring the dickens out of American industry pundits, not to mention
> the middle of the bubble years.  *Everybody* in Japan was having a
> good time then, and competent programmers probably had it better than
> most.
>
> Ruby's Matz claims that there are serious structural problems in the
> Japanese software industry and education these days.  If his analysis
> is correct, I'm not surprised that life has gotten less pleasant for
> Japanese developers.  I'm certainly distressed at the extremely low
> level of Japanese participation in GSoC.  Compare India: Indian
> students surpassed the American contingent in 2014, and they're on
> track to increase their lead this year from what I hear --
> applications open officially later today so that's just a guess.
>
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