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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Titles
Message-ID: <4588@kestrel.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 16:56:06 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 16:56:06 1986
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Organization: Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, CA
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Keywords: Computer Science, Bullshit about degrees

In article <3407@nsc.UUCP>, freak@nsc.UUCP (Curt Mayer) writes:
> It has been my experience that CS professors haven't the foggiest idea what
> the industry needs. [...]
> A random hacker grade programmer of high school age is worth 5 brand new
> CS degree-oids.
> Note that ALL the awesomely hot programmers I know do not have degrees.

I don't know whether this is a joke or not.
It is silly, but not very funny. It gives people the misleading
impression that you can get far in computer science without anything
but coding talent. This will be true for a very few. Or it will
restrict you to working for banks and job shops.
It's unlikely to get you working for Sun, Symbolics, Xenon,
Teknowledge, Intellicorp, SRI,.......
It's also an implied insult. Why do people write such things?

Peter Ladkin