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- From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.234106.9241@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug31.133811.3626@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug31.144045.11416@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Aug31.170849.11927@mprgate.mpr.ca> <1992Aug31.195540.13074@ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Sep1.202814.13937@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:41:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.202814.13937@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- |> [...]
- |> A certain nameless friend who is doing a PHd in CS was trying to sort
- |> a million numbers using a bubble sort. [...]
-
- A certan CS *graduate* announced proudly to me that he never
- bothered to take the sorting and searching courses because if he
- ever need to sort something, he could pipe it through sort(1) and
- you can always avoid complicated searching - just keep your data
- sorted and use a binary search!
-
- The point is that there are anomalously *bad* programmers in
- all fields. The question remains, what does this say about
- the quality of the CS department which graduated these examples?
- It would seem similar to a physics graduate who couldn't solve
- balance-beam statics problems. Or a mathematician who didn't
- know that multiply was commutative.
-
- --
- J. Giles
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