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From: phil@mit-amt (Phil Sohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "Self-taught" programmers
Message-ID: <3509@mit-amt>
Date: 24 Jan 89 13:04:31 GMT
References: <1542@csuna.UUCP> <76000334@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <3709@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: phil@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Phil Sohn)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <3709@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> danm@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Daniel Milliron) writes:
>In article <76000334@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>Virtual memory is not the type of software some self-taught programmer
>>can knock off in a weekend with a couple of pots of coffee :-) In
>>fact, most self-taught programmers probably couldn't hack the problem
>>at all.
>
>I don't want to turn this issue into a flame-throwing war...

	I don't see an issue at all: I am still a self-taught
programmer even though I have an MIT degree.  A college degree
has little to do with being self-taught.


	phil sohn		phil@ems.media.mit.edu