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From: daryl@svo.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 21:50:00 EST
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/* Written 11:01 pm  Feb 26, 1986 by msl5864@ritcv.UUCP in svo.UUCP:net.singles */
>curt writes:
>
>>>> 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.
>>>> 	curt
>> 
>I originally replied:
>
>>>      Come on, a high school programmer? 
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>>    Sorry, Harry, I have to agree with Curt.  If the kid is like my son,
>>    who has just started High School.  He spent part of his 8th grade
>>    year teaching his programming teacher some new tricks. 
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>>    
>> 	abeaver@tektronix
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>
>      Well I hate to tell you this, but my brother is in 7th grade
>	and is also a good student, (certificates in computer
>	classes,etc) but he still does not "know" about computers.  
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>        A junior high school teacher in computers (notice I didn't say
>	computer science)  usually does not know much about them.
>	Most likely they didn't major in anything close, and they
>	probably know less about them than most first year computer
>	science students. 
>
>      
>					Harry


I happen to agree very much with what Harry said.  I find it highly improbable
that an average high school teacher or random hacker would be able to write
programs such as airplane flight reservation systems, or pharmaceutical
programs manage databases with thousands of patients, products, interactions,
contraindications, doctors, and billing etc. etc..  I do think that a person
with a computer science degree and little training could write such programs
without to much difficulty.

                                                               Mike.
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Michael S. Leibow
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