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- From: raph@panache.demon.co.uk (Raphael mankin)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!panache.demon.co.uk!raph
- Subject: Re: Any hope for me..?
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- References: <4322@dozo.and.nl>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:51:20 +0000
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- In article <4322@dozo.and.nl> jos@and.nl writes:
-
- >....
- >I've been thinking about your preferences towards non CS graduates, but
- >I still find it a remarkable opinion. Here in the Netherlands, people
- >with an degree in English or History (as you wrote) know next to nothing
- >about computers, mathematics and computer science.
- >
- >Are you actually telling us that, after you've employed those people,
- >you're retraining them? Don't you think that doing so would be very
- >cost ineffective. I estimate that it would take at least a year or so,
- >before these people start being productive.
- >
- You appear to have missed my point. What I said was 'when I employ
- _programmers_'. The implication is that they do know how to program. What I am
- looking for is people who know _more_ than programming; people who have been
- educated, not just trained; well rounded individuals, not animated machines.
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- I could go on, but bandwidth ...
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- Raphael Mankin Nil taurus excretum
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