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From: tlh@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas L. Hausmann)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: What is CS?
Message-ID: <3714@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 88 21:15:59 GMT
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In article <569@abcom.ATT.COM>, rgsmeb@abcom.ATT.COM (Michel Behna) writes:
> From article <3686@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, by tlh@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas L. Hausmann):
> > In article <439@abcom.ATT.COM>, rgsmeb@abcom.ATT.COM (Michel Behna) writes:
> I switched to CS because I could not get a job with my BA. How many CS
> graduates know how to program an IBM PC? How many know what a LAN is and
> how it works? How many understand that tech specs are the only reason many
> people buy computers of a particular brand? How many can justify it?
> 
> Michel Behna



You and I are in CS for two very different reasons.  I suggest we discuss this further
via e-mail.

-Tom


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