From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bdc41aa5ff8e1d93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Kevin J. Weise" Subject: Re: Programmers -> Engineers; Engineers -> Programmers Date: 1996/08/12 Message-ID: <4uo9kd$h1t@michp1.redstone.army.mil>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173773115 references: <1996Aug8.115630.4568@relay.nswc.navy.mil> <4udri5$dmv@michp1.redstone.army.mil> <4uo6ch$s3v@portal.gmu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Date: 1996-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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! :-) --------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin J. Weise email: kweise@sed.redstone.army.mil COLSA Corp. voice: (205) 842-9083 Huntsville, AL .standard disclaimers apply