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From: barnes@Xylogics.COM (Jim Barnes)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Theory vs. Practice in CS Education
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Date: 16 Nov 89 21:25:54 GMT
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In article <4967@ae.sei.cmu.edu> rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) writes:
>In article <4251@pegasus.ATT.COM> Paul S. R. Chisholm writes:
>>What good are compiler courses?  Well, when writing code I want to run
>>fast, I always feel more comfortable when I know more or less what the
>>compiler is going to turn my code *into*; 
>
>Nonsense -- this has nothing to do with software engineering, the original
>topic.  At the engineering level, you don't care what the compiler is doing
>with the code anymore than an architect cares how electricity flows through
>wires.

Nonsense, unless your definition of a software engineer doesn't care
about performance. ;-)



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  Jim Barnes (barnes@Xylogics.COM)