Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.flame Subject: Re: Software Engineers Message-ID: <2485@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 10:47:40 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.2485 Posted: Thu Oct 18 10:47:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:50:39 EDT References: <737@u1100a.UUCP> <1436@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <1195@hao.UUCP> <>, <304@digi-g.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 22 RARF! snarl snarl snarl... I don't mind Mr. Messinger's two categories, but I disagree with his assumption that liberal-arts colleges are reduced to teaching COBOL. My liberal-arts college goes to the opposite extreme: it considers COBOL and keypunches beneath notice, possibly because they're too job-oriented. (-; In any case, Dartmouth College's CS program is run by the mathematics department, offers all the classes he requires for 'software engineers', and none of the ''liberal-arts, vo-tech'' courses. (Actually, only the engineering department bothers to teach FORTRAN at all, but that's another argument.) Don't downgrade liberal-arts schools; they can provide fine technical educations, even (especially!) if they don't restrict themselves to being technical. -- Betsy Perry UUCP: {decvax|linus|cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay