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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
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Subject: Re: Degrees, grades...
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 23:24:03 EST
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In article <55@gilbbs.UUCP>, mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller) writes:
>    Damn it all to hell!   Let's get something straight:  if you are going to
> talk about Computer Science programs, then you are talking about a course of
> study designed to prepare one to be a Computer Scientist, a theoretician who
> analyzes and does research.
> 
>    I find it fascinating and distressing that so many of you want to water 
> this down to meet the needs of people who wish to be 
> (or think they wish to be) PROGRAMMERS!

Please read the other contributions to this discussion to find
out why this viewpoint is fundamentally mistaken.

Your equation of a Computer Scientist with a theoretician is 
strange, as is your suggestion that theoreticians are the
only people who do research.

Peter Ladkin