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From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: College Students Flock to Computer Science
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 22:10:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 22:10:42 1985
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>There is an excellent article on page 1 of today's, Monday, January 14,
>1985, New York Times with the above title.  Reading it I cannot help
>wondering if we are killing the goose that laid the golden egg.  By this I
>mean that in a few years that there will be many unemployed Computer
>Science majors who are at best mediocre programmers.  
.....
>How long do you think the current boom in Computer Science will last and
>what will happen when it goes disappears?
>
						Larry Welsch
						houxu!welsch

The boom has lasted TOO long. What about the GRADUATE schools that
fill up from ex-(X : X belongs to < $15,000.00/annum) 30+'ers.....
The result is garbaged software (they don't know THAT much to go on
hardware, thank God, or we will have the <generic_hardware> case of
the FORD Pinto and other successes (:-?). Not only that, but as 
PRIME candidates for Teaching & Lab Assistants, can create trouble
(i.e, wrong concepts) to innocent people. 

What will happen??? Same thing with the Chem. Engineers.... Then 
I will enjoy seeing all these people go back to their previous
trades (English, Library Science, Basket Weaving, etc.)

-- Spiros

Spiros Triantafyllopoulos  <> USENET {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!sigma
Computer Science Dept, USL <> CSNet  TriantafyllopoulosS%usl@csnet-relay.ARPA

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