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- From: jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon C. R. Bennett)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Is Borland the leader in technology?
- Message-ID: <0f=CXhK00WD5Bi0v4w@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 10:05:01 GMT
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- thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
- > "Jon C. R. Bennett" <jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > >dont need chemicals to do computer science (unless you count caffine), but
- > >in two courses the most that you can do is teach someone to be dangerous,
- > >you cant teach them computer science. Look at it this way, if I took 2
- > >chemical engineering courses, would you think I could do chemical
- > >engineering? no, so why do you think 2 CS courses means that a Chemical
- > >Engineer can do Computer Science?
- >
- > Yes, everyone with a Computer Science (TM) degree is automatically
- > a Computer Scientist (TM even more). We all push back the frontiers
- > of Computer Science (oh forget it) and publish papers. Yup!
- >
- > With two semesters of Lisp or Smalltalk, you can teach a Chemical
- > Engineer (TM) to write a chemical factory simulation, and use it
- > to find problems. With two semesters of Fortran, she can also learn
- > how to find prime numbers!
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- its interesting, i agree with the point that you are trying to make in
- your first paragraph, i do not in fact belive that just because someone
- has a CS degree that they can do computer science, but if you think that
- is true why is it that you then belive that with 2 courses any Chemical
- Engineer (TM) can do computer science?????????
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- jon
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