Anyone ever thought that the solution to all this might be to actually establish ourselves as a true programming industry? Meaning: just because you "know" C or PHP or Ruby or Perl or Java doesn't mean you can program. There should be certifications and licensure, just like there are for plumbers or architects or electricians, et al. Though, we'd all have to agree on some common standards for that to ever happen. But that'll never happen since we're all such cowboy coders at heart. ;)