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Death of a Programmer

During the 18 years that I was an application development professional, I took great pride in being a part of the elite group of geeks that could write an application that was needed by the business or desired by the public.  After all, I had spent 4 years in college formalizing the previous 5 years where I was cobbled away in the corner of the library or computer lab writing applications on a TSR-Model I (4K of RAM!), learning how to be a practitioner of the black arts. And so when I first started seeing process automation solutions like BMC Atrium Orchestrator and later CA Process Automation , I was aghast.  "How dare they!" I bellowed.  "They're taking away my own secret sauce that makes me stand out from the crowd!" I yelled.  Never mind that I left application development in 2005 - I just wanted to maintain my status as one of the computer programming elite. Lately, I've been getting more intimately involved with CA Release Automation .  And whi