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  3. From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc,comp.arch,sci.math
  5. Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
  6. Message-ID: <1992Sep2.134206.13483@crd.ge.com>
  7. Date: 2 Sep 92 13:42:06 GMT
  8. 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> <1992Sep1.234106.9241@newshost.lanl.gov>
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  10. Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
  11. Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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  15. In article <1992Sep1.234106.9241@newshost.lanl.gov>, jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
  16.  
  17. | The point is that there are anomalously *bad* programmers in
  18. | all fields.  The question remains, what does this say about
  19. | the quality of the CS department which graduated these examples?
  20. | It would seem similar to a physics graduate who couldn't solve
  21. | balance-beam statics problems.  Or a mathematician who didn't
  22. | know that multiply was commutative.
  23.  
  24.   The point I was making is that CS and software engineering are not the
  25. same thing, and while it's useful for practitioners of one to understand
  26. something of the other, it's neither given nor necessary that someone
  27. working in one field be more than casually familiar with the other.
  28.  
  29. -- 
  30. bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
  31.     I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
  32.