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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
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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
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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
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