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From: jscheibl@mason2.gmu.edu (Jack W Scheible)
Subject: Re: Programmers -> Engineers; Engineers -> Programmers
Date: 1996/08/15
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In article <Dw6wKp.BEG@most.fw.hac.com> jakrzy@ss2.magec.com (James A. Krzyzanowski) writes:
>Jack W Scheible (jscheibl@mason2.gmu.edu) wrote:
>: In _my_ experience, people who major in Computer Science tend to be
>: dullards; if they were not, they would have majored in EE.
>
>Unbelievable!
>
>When will people learn they can't make such generalizations?
>
>I looked up the exact definition of dullard - one that is stupid,
>unimaginative, or insensitive.

I misspoke.  I should have said, "Most of the CS majors I have
met are dullards; many wanted to be EE majors but were not
admitted to the program, and others failed out of EE."
(Those that failed out of CS became business majors.)

>I think it would be pretty tough to get through CS if you're stupid. 
>How can a CS person ever design a program if he were unimaginative?

All adjectives are relative.

>Insensitive?  Maybe some, but not most.

The dictionary used the conjunction "or," not "and."
>
>BTW - my degree is in Mathematics!

My minor was also in Mathematics.

-jack