Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!steve From: steve@oakhill.UUCP (steve) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: _The Closing of the American Mind_ (was: Re: Cultural Literacy) Summary: By Saul Bellow Message-ID: <1473@devsys.oakhill.UUCP> Date: 30 Aug 88 18:51:38 GMT References: <620@sdics.ucsd.EDU> <2854@hubcap.UUCP> Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx Lines: 35 I have not been following the discussion too closely, so I might be making points which already have been made, or which are irrelevent. First is to mention a review of tCotAM that I have seen. The reviewer did a review of tCotAM as a book by Saul Bellow. He first pointed out that the introduction was by Bellow. He then said that This was a great joke Bellow was putting on us, that Mr. Bloom was exactly the type of pompous ass Bellow would create. Mr. Bloom was not amused. If there is a need to prove that a broad base education is necessary all one has to do is look at the computer science profession. How many computer science majors actually work in their field. Yes they program computers, but they apply it to anything but computers. I am one of the lucky few who does pure computer science work, and that is in a company I started on the side. Otherwise I have worked in Sonar physics, writing gate-array design software, etc. Most computer programming exists in the business fields. In otherwords, being a computer scientist doesn't mean you need to know less, it means you need to know more, so that you can apply your training to someone else's problem. enough from this mooncalf - Steven ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These opinions aren't necessarily Motorola's or Remora's - but I'd like to think we share some common views. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven R Weintraub cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!devsys!steve Motorola Inc. 6501 William Cannon Dr. West, Mail OE29 Austin, Texas 78762 (512) 440-3023 (office) (512) 453-6953 (home) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------