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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
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Subject: Re: Software Engineers
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 10:47:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 10:47:40 1984
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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
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