Re: Programmers -> Engineers; Engineers -> Programmers

["Kevin J. Weise" <kweise@c3i-ccmail.sed.redstone.army.mil>]

jscheibl@mason2.gmu.edu (Jack W Scheible) wrote:
>In _my_ experience, people who major in Computer Science tend to be
>dullards; if they were not, they would have majored in EE.
>
That's cosmic.  Half the Computer Science people at my alma mater 
*were* EEs.  Of course, that was nearly 20 years ago, & the CS dep't 
only offered graduate degrees.

>There is nary an engineering curriculum in the country that does not
>require programming, and nary a Computer Science curriculum that
>requires engineering classes.
>
True enough.  But those EEs who stayed EEs were the same ones who 
were the die-hard FORTRAN fans & who used every perverse trick in the 
book.  It was rarely for "optimization", it was usually 
one-upsmanship.  Boy howdy!  Now that's software! :-)

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