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Article #620893Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:29
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:29
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On 2018-02-22, J Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, "Computer Scientists" these days don't seem to have to > do mundane things like writing code. And they get snarky if anyone > suggests that there's anything wrong with this--they're working on the > Great Advances, code is for the trade schools, according to them. That's why I dropped out of CS in 1971, and got a programming job in the Real World [tm]. Getting those payrolls and receivables out took a change in mindset which turned out to be quite worthwhile. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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