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From: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: American Programmer (What's a Ph.D. worth?)
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Date: 12 Apr 88 18:49:04 GMT
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In article <3042@sfsup.UUCP> peking@/doc/dmg/pekingUUCP (xt1124-AUG881-L.Perkins) writes:
>In article <3763@dasys1.UUCP> pepper@dasys1.UUCP (Angelique Wahlstedt) writes:
>>Some of the courses that I think should be required in college are Software
>>Engineering and Technical Writing (some colleges such as Rochester Institute
>>
>Yes, Yes, Yes.
>However, the real world has great difficulty communicating the
>necessity for good writing to faculty in Computer Science departments.

One of the reasons it has this difficulty is that the said Real
World won't pay for documentation or the associated skills.

Suppose you can both write well and program well: if you go where the
money is, you'll never have anything to do with documentation.

(In saying "Real World" I assume you speak about "business"; I don't
know what the story is in academia, government, or other areas, but
I'll bet it's the same.)