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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Any hope for me..?
- Message-ID: <822@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 23:22:04 GMT
- References: <C0CC1w.2F5@netnews.jhuapl.edu> <726355710snz@panache.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <726355710snz@panache.demon.co.uk> raph@panache.demon.co.uk writes:
- >When I employ programmers I prefer those with a degree in English or History
- >or Physics, or anything except CS. They tend to have more rounded knowledge
- >and don't think that they know it all.
- >
- >My experience of CS graduates is that, by and large, they have read nothing
- >and know nothing that was not in their degree course.
- >--
- >Raphael Mankin Nil taurus excretum
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- Strangely enough, this is not an unheard of theory. Computer science
- courses teach "how to do", whereas liberal arts courses teach "hot to
- think" .... or so the theory goes.
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- My own background is in linguistics, before I switched over to cis.
- I think that the training given in language analysis there was one
- of the most useful things I had in college for my current occupation!
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