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Subject: Re: Languages & cultures
Summary: major peeve
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Date: 23 Mar 90 00:09:29 GMT
References: <2605a117.396e@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <8440@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!sanders!sanders (Tony Sanders)
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In article <8440@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu 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 
This whole attitude makes me sick.  If you are going/went to college
that is fine with me but just because I wish to take a different route
to gain knowledge don't shove your pompous self-righteous attitude in
my face.

I'm glad that not everyone in the world has the same attitude as you,
some people are a willing to let the facts speak for themselves rather
then making judgements based on a worthless piece of paper.  I thank
those people and hope more will do the same.

Now for your (and my) edification I would like to close with a quote
from _The Little LISPer_ by Daniel Friedman and Matthias Felleisen:

	...In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must
	learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis.
	One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a
	knowledge of steel and dirt...  Similarly, one cannot build a
	beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how
	to "previsualize" the process generated by the procedures one
	writes.

-- sanders
For every message of the day, a new improved message will arise to overcome it.
Reply-To: cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!sanders.austin.ibm.com!sanders     (ugh!)