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From: rks@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Ramesh Sitaraman)
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Subject: Re: "Expertise"
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Date: 2 Apr 89 23:45:11 GMT
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In article <3241@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>
>... but the top twenty "thinks-he's-a-computer-scientist"
>bozos that I have met were all C.S. Professors.  And the rest were
>postgrads. Most of them just haven't had enough experiece building and
>maintaining computers and software to know beans about it. They're all
>frustrated mathematicians, and would rather to play with pencils
>and paper than with silicon.
>.......... much nonsense deleted................

Computer Science is a study of computation, which is essentially
mathematical in nature. If you thought that computer science is
writing and maintaining software, I can only say that your
teachers deceived you (HINT: Writing software is no more 
computer science than book keeping is economics !). May be
you are not aware that it took frustrated mathematicains like
Turing and von neuman to conceive modern computers. Of course
I understand the urge of many mediocre hackers trying to  pass off
as scientist. But they deceive only themselves. Maybe next time you can
try convincing physicists that they should really be studying
the effect of VO5 on car paint instead of working all those
"useless" theories.
		Regards,

		    Ramesh 
ARPA:  rks@princeton.edu |Why should anyone suppose that all that matters 
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                         |rod ? The nature of all reality is spiritual.
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