Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot From: chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Poor English (here too) Message-ID: <992@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:29:07 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.992 Posted: Thu Mar 7 09:29:07 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:27:03 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 25 Sorry! I find in my last letter on this subject, I was reasonable, and I even had cause to take offense! Okay, here goes, for flame fans: Robert Herndon == > > It strikes me as singularly appropriate that computer jocks are incapable of > using human languages with any facility. They can not write; neither can they > spell. Any analyses? > Anyhow, considering that persons acquiring degrees in computer related fields > will probably spend at least as much time writing ENGLISH as computer > programs, I find it disheartening to find so little emphasis on communications > skills in CS departments. Look, bucko, I *don't* know what _you_ got a degree in, but I've already shown your lack of initiative in looking up a PERFECTLY good word in a very good dictionary of my choice (actually, the stock room's choice). I've got a SB in CS from MIT, and I spent a good number of years getting it (ah! those happy senior years), so I don't take lightly to anyone saying anything denigrating about it. During that time I had three classes in which they let me program (the rest of the cs courses we had to READ books and papers); compare this to the four I spent in English Literature and four in German. Pfui! L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752