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From: reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Languages & cultures
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.113205.1141@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 21 Mar 90 11:32:05 GMT
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Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, dept. CS (Informatica)
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billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) writes:

>   Regarding the level of professional skill, it is and has long been 
>   my position that professional software engineers should have, at a 
>   MINIMUM, a Bachelor's degree (and preferably a Master's degree) in 
>   Computer Science and/or Software Engineering.  One of the problems ...
	
or, should have, at a
MINIMUM, knowledge and experience comparable to the level of knowledge
and experience expected from a Bachelor's degree (and preferably a
Master's degree) in ....
[The key word here being `expected']

>   ... Software Engineers.  This typically requires three training phases: 
>   Introduction to Software Engineering, Introduction To Computer Science,
>   and finally Software Development using Ada -- a far cry from insisting
>   on "grunt laborers"!!

I don't see what Ada has to do with the (otherwise not far from the
truth) points you're making. In the above we could replace Ada by `the
language chosen for development'.

Reino
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Reino R. A. de Boer
Erasmus University Rotterdam ( Informatica )
e-mail: reino@cs.eur.nl