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From: archer@elysium.sgi.com (Archer Sully)
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Subject: Re: Languages & cultures
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Date: 22 Mar 90 18:52:34 GMT
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In article <5948@brazos.Rice.edu> preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:

>In article <8440@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>>From jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck):
>>> Those who like
>>> C are more of the craftsman type that like to produce finely wrought
>>> masterpieces.

>Hmmm.

>>   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.

>I'd say more even training/learning is better.  Despite a bachelor's and
>years of personal and industrial programming, I've learned a lot in
>grad school.

>>   The difference is between those who recognize the need for programming
>>   in the large and the economic benefits of operating collectively rather
>>   than individually, and those who seek to maintain a one-person business
>>   forever despite its limitations and relative inefficiencies.

>Hmmmmm.  I believe I'm more efficient (bang for the buck) than any large
>group of programmers.  I also believe I can write cleaner, better organized,
>better documented programs than a large group of people.  

Are you making a connection between your ability to write good code
and grad school?  I hope not.  I have had to look at large amounts of
grad school code.  It has been of uniformly low quality, although 
often expressing interesting ideas.

Archer Sully 	      |  I'm 27 years old.  That's 54 in Nerd Years
(archer@esd.sgi.com)  | 	-- Keith Rienzi