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- From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
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- Subject: Re: Programmers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.205600.13908@netlabs.com>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 20:56:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep12.043133.6177@linus.mitre.org> crawford@church.mitre.org (Randy Crawford) writes:
- : The original assertion still stands -- number theory and computability has
- : little business being part of an undergrad CS curriculum, unless the bulk
- : of the undergrads can be expected to go on for CS PhDs, where they may find
- : use for such things.
-
- Indeed, if you want to set the world on its ear, you'd better have a
- different set of ears than the world.
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- This applies to more worlds than just the world, of course.
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- Larry Wall
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