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From: chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Poor English (here too)
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:29:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 09:29:07 1985
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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
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