wouter van ooijen wrote: > Another perspective: in a lot of cases I would not have achieved > anything without a fair dose of both. Does that count as 50-50? That > would not do justice to the fact that neither being a theory maveric (or > a practical man with 1k y experience) would have achieved anyhting. I think this is exactly it. In many cases, you need a certain dose of both -- which cannot be expressed in which is more important, because both are necessary. Then there is the thing that even with a "theory dominates" job, it's usually the experience that tells you which theory to use and how to employ it -- and with a "100% experience" job, it's probably more often than not a dose of theory that lets you make good use of the experience :) Gerhard -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist