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From: parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Where have all the hackers gone?
Message-ID: <417@ihu1h.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 22:56:54 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  9 22:56:54 1984
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 > Because of the popularity of computer science as a field of study as of late,
 > many computer science departments have been forced to severely limit 
 > enrollment.  Generally they do this by raising entrance requirements 
 > and by requiring new freshmen to take "weed out" courses designed to make 
 > computer science as unpleasant as possible.  This ensures that only the 
 > fittest students will survive, the rest being exiled to other majors or 
 > other schools.  There is only one disturbing fact:  The fittest students 
 > aren't neccessarily the best programmers........

Hackers aren't necessarily the best computer scientists.

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