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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,misc.education
Subject: Re: What is a professional?
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Date: 12 Sep 90 14:08:52 GMT
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In article <1990Sep10.132253.2781@pdn.paradyne.com>,
    reggie@dinsdale.paradyne.com (George W. Leach) writes:

>      In addition, I have seen people without degrees who are just as
> qualified to be a professional as those with degrees.  It is rare, but it
> happens.

It is more common in some environments than in others.  When I worked
at Applied Data Research, there were many people who had been programming
since the late 50's and early 60's (a LOT of people who started out
on 1401's, and a few who started out on electro-mechanical tabulating
machines).

At that time, there were no CS degrees, and a lot of these people
learned how to program in the service.
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