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From: bradlee@cg-atla.UUCP (Rob Bradlee)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: CS education [engineering, mathematics, and computer science]
Message-ID: <8073@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 13:10:39 GMT
References: <1398@cs.rit.edu> <10072@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <89320.110032UH2@PSUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: bradlee@cg-atla.UUCP (Rob Bradlee)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <89320.110032UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>  You can give your symbolic calculus calculator (Maple?
>Mathematica?) to a chimp, if you want, but she won't be able to use it
>for anything useful.

Not True!  Here at Agfa we have employed dozens of chimps to perform our
development work.  We give them the latest in hardware and software tools
and they diligantly type away all day.  As far as we can tell, they produce
more lines of code with fewer bugs than our human developers.  Well, of
course they do take some time out each day for mutual grooming to remove
those nasty little fleas and lice from each other's fur, but we bury the
time on our time-sheets under "bug-fixing".  
    Finally, I think you all need to open your minds to new techniques 
like lower-species development methods.  I'm tired of the bigotry and 
intolerance shown towards our furry cousins.

				Rob

P. S.  Wanna bet someone takes this seriously?

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