Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!houxu!welsch From: welsch@houxu.UUCP (Larry Welsch) Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: College Students Flock to Computer Science Message-ID: <505@houxu.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 07:50:37 EST Article-I.D.: houxu.505 Posted: Mon Jan 14 07:50:37 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 01:09:33 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 14 There is an excellent article on page 1 of today's, Monday, January 14, 1985, New York Times with the above title. Reading it I cannot help wondering if we are killing the goose that laid the golden egg. By this I mean that in a few years that there will be many unemployed Computer Science majors who are at best mediocre programmers. A similar problem has occurred in other fields such as Chemical Engineering. There will always be room for the top people, but I cannot help but wonder if there won't be a bust before 1990. How long do you think the current boom in Computer Science will last and what will happen when it goes disappears? Larry Welsch houxu!welsch