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From: chrisp@regenmeister.uucp (Chris Prael)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: CS education
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Date: 13 Nov 89 18:30:53 GMT
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From article <1989Nov10.210835.3884@ico.isc.com>, by rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn):
> Computer Science departments are NOT at fault for failing to train people
> for non-computer-science jobs!  

If there were such a thing as a "computer science job" outside of a
college or univerisity, you would be right.  There is not.

> Computer Science is a science, not a hightech trade-school profession.

I have been seeing this assertion for about 15 years now and I have yet to
see any justification for it.  Just where is the "science"?

Chris Prael