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From: greg@hwcs.UUCP (Greg Michaelson)
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Subject: Re: Shortage of Logic Programmers?
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Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 06:42:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 11 06:42:16 1984
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Given there's a somewhat pronounced recession and that undergraduates are
getting more and more edgy about getting jobs, the absence of postgraduates
in an area of little interest outside academia is not very suprising. Once/if
logic programming takes off in 'real world' computing there'll be an
increase in emphasis from students on learning it. Look at the way the
totally bogus topic of 'microcomputing' has mushroomed! There's a lot more
to logic programming than Von-Neumann-on-a-chip but until it has increased
social exposure students won't want to know. Perhaps I have an over
pessimistic view of students, but my impression is that they're getting
more and more conservative.
Greg Michaelson, Dept. Comp. Sci., Heriot-Watt U., Edinburgh, Scotland.