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From: brinsmead@calgary.UUCP (Mark Brinsmead)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: CS vs. CE
Message-ID: <369@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 12:28:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: vaxb.369
Posted: Wed Sep 10 12:28:07 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Sep-86 12:30:47 EDT
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Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
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In article <65@alberta.UUCP>, cdshaw@alberta.UUCP (Chris Shaw) writes:
> ... For CS to make it as a true academic discipline, it must have academic
> merit. In other words, it must be hard, ...

Are you trying to say that CS is not hard? Are you trying to tell me that when
I was consistently putting in hours of 8AM to 1AM (7 days a week, for an
6 month period) *THIS* was not hard?

   CS is very much a *TRUE* academic discipline, although perhaps it may not 
be treated as such in *SOME* schools. But of course, if one looks, one can
always find a school of engineering, law, or medicine that would grant a 
degree to a bar of soap if it could meet the tuition. Perhaps this indicates
that engineering, law and medicine are also of dubious academic quality.
The only difference between these and CS, is that CS is a much younger 
discipline, and so does not always get the full recognition it deserves.

   (Sometimes I get *SO* annoyed by people's unthinking comments.)

                                         M. Brinsmead @ University of Calgary.