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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Value of Computer Science degree
Message-ID: <4836@kestrel.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 21:19:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 21:19:59 1986
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In article <3422@nsc.UUCP>, freak@nsc.UUCP (Curt Mayer) writes:

> [....] there is an Engineer mentality,
> and a Mathematician mentality. The hacker has the former.

Stereotypes always lend credence to a point.

> also, when i flamed CS profs, it was aimed mostly at every two-bit state
> school who thinks that hiring failed DP professionals gives them a viable
> CS department.  

Move to another state. 
Our Californian two-bit state schools hire Ph.D.s

> i know many damn good programmers with degrees, but none of them have
> CS degrees.  I am sure that they exist. 

Try your favorite top university, or the list of companies I gave,
or even a two-bit state school.

> Every hacker i know has read Knuth. it is, after all, the bible.

Right. And done all of the number theory problems, I suppose.
And they've all implemented many-sorted algebraic data types,
it's only Knuth-Bendix, after all.

Please, let's not turn this discussion into a Luddite revival.

Peter Ladkin