Xref: utzoo soc.college:7212 comp.edu:4103 Newsgroups: soc.college,comp.edu Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!boulder!news From: mciver@gravytrain.colorado.edu (William McIver Jr.) Subject: Re: Stanford wins ACM Programming Contest (light hearted flame) Message-ID: <1991Mar19.041704.19600@colorado.edu> Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Nntp-Posting-Host: gravytrain.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder References: <1991Mar9.015506.26544@math.ucla.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 04:17:04 GMT In article ls2r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Lui Sieh) writes: ... >Was Carnegie Mellon University not among the competitors? Somehow I'm a >bit shocked to see that 2 of the top Computer Science >Departments/Schools aren't even listed in the Top 25. (MIT being the >second other school not mentioned). > > >-Lui > >Judge not by the appearance, but judge righteous judgement. >Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.- R.W Emerson >Opinions are mine and mine only...besides who'd want them? >ls2r@andrew.cmu.edu ls2r%andrew@CARNEGIE What an arrogant and short sighted assumption. I find it ironic that you quote Emerson above on nonconformity and admonishments about judging on *appearance*. The results of the ACM contest should tell you something about the correlation between polls and reality. By the way, I *sincerely* (no flame here) wonder what poll you are basing your rankings of CMU and MIT on? WJM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- William J. McIver, Jr. mciver@tigger.colorado.edu Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado @ Boulder --------------------------------------------------------------------