Subject: Re: Is mediocrity the norm in computer science ?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:43:09 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3233832189653348@naggum.net>

* Stefan Birbacher
| In fact, here entry requirements are far lower for computer science
| degree courses than for law or medicine.
| 
| The drones who just want a job seem to be entering comp sci in
| increasing numbers.  They used to do accounting before.

  Computer Science has never been a science, and it is becoming more and more a
  engineering or technical school subject, not a university subject.  It is
  somewhat like mechanics, which is a hard subject in physics, and auto
  mechanics, which is not.
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