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From: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper )
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: College Students Flock to Computer Science
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 18:31:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 18:31:04 1985
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In article <505@houxu.UUCP> welsch@houxu.UUCP (Larry Welsch) writes:
>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?

Worry not!  Universities, at least in this part of the country, are busy
establishing new, significantly lower enrollment ceilings on numbers of CS 
and of Engineering students.  This should take care of overpopulation!

Brint