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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: The programming CULT
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.174543.27956@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 6 Aug 90 16:40:01 GMT
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In article <1990Aug6.172135.27287@midway.uchicago.edu>, I wrote:
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>There are of course many academics who have led to the innovations we take for
>granted today, but I personally admire someone like Bill Atkinson or Andy
>Hertzfeld, who actually goes out and produces something useful as opposed to
>the legions of CS MS's and PhD's, many of whom produce little besides academic
>papers.  I see the difference not so much as that between carpentry and civil
>engineering, but rather as that between a film maker and a film critic: both
>have their uses, but I know which I admire more: the one who creatively
>produces.


Just to clarify: I don't mean to put down anyone who has a BS or MS in CS; I
feel certain that many of the people out there making cool new stuff for the
Mac have gone this route.  Rather, I meant to express some skepticism of the
value of theoretical academic study in the "real world".  Y'know, the kind of
stufff PhD's study. :-> :->

Robert

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