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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Real programmers
Summary: What you mean "we", Kimosabe?
Keywords: forth
Message-ID: <12781@well.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 04:54:28 GMT
References: <8907171553.AA17414@lilac.berkeley.edu> <7135@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1065@acf3.NYU.EDU> <5558@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Aging Hippies of America
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In article <5558@pt.cs.cmu.edu> koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman) writes:
>In article <1065@acf3.NYU.EDU>, sabbagh@acf3.NYU.EDU (sabbagh) writes:
>> Finally, I am concerned that most FORTH programmers have a prejudice
>> against people with college degrees ;-).
>
>You might be surprised to find out that most Forth practitioners
>(at least the ones at the Forth conferences) have college degrees.

	Not jax! I was thrown out of *3* fine educational institutions.

>In fact, a surprisingly large proportion of them have Ph.D. degrees.
>They also are predominantly first-born male children.
>
	Interesting! You got me there! Source of info?

>The only thing is, almost none of the degrees have anything to
>do with computers....

	Q.E.D. ... in *general* college degrees don't got nuttin
to do with computers ...

>Senior Scientist at Harris Semiconductor.
>I don't speak for them, and they don't speak for me.

	Well, do you speak *to* them? When's the RTX4000 due out? :-)

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