Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdavis.ucdavis.edu!windley From: windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: "Expertise" Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 89 18:03:46 GMT References: <354@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <7531@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Distribution: usa Organization: UCD Robotics Research Lab Lines: 31 In-reply-to: coggins@coggins.cs.unc.edu's message of 31 Mar 89 14:01:52 GMT Xref: utzoo comp.edu:2153 comp.software-eng:1313 comp.lang.c++:2887 In article <7531@thorin.cs.unc.edu> coggins@coggins.cs.unc.edu (Dr. James Coggins) writes: I have a new question, and maybe you folks can fill in more (even more irritating) examples. Why does... ...anyone who has written a program (in BASIC, say) think he's a computer scientist? ...anyone who knows FORTRAN think he knows all he needs to know about programming? ...anyone who has written a program more than one page long think he's a software engineer? etc. I once read somewhere that people who build paper airplanes would never think that they could build a 747, but there are all sorts of folks who, having built a 10 line program in BASIC, think that they could single-handedly write the code for SDI. --phil-- -- Phil Windley | windley@iris.ucdavis.edu Division of Computer Science | ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!windley College of Engineering | (916) 752-7324 (or 3168) University of California, Davis | Davis, CA 95616