Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1h.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass 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 Article-I.D.: ihu1h.417 Posted: Sun Dec 9 22:56:54 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 06:37:07 EST References: <3137@utah-cs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 15 > 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. -- =============================================================================== Bob Parnass, Bell Telephone Laboratories - ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass - (312)979-5414