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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/05/15
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In article <JSA.97May14201336@alexandria>,
Jon S Anthony <jsa@alexandria> wrote:
>> Well then let's not bother teaching computer science at all!  Why not just
>
>Sounds like a good idea to me.

Yeah, why don't we just burn those computer science texts, too!
We can start with that _Introduction to Algorithms_, by Cormen, Leiserson
and Rivest and thrown in some Knuth and Sedgewick for good measure.

>This would be the start of something that made sense if the core
>subject was _engineering software artifacts_.

This anti-intellectual claptrap romanticizing is getting rather tiresome.

Heck, I propose that we do away with learning all together. We should instead
hold retreats in the woods to get in touch with those engineers inside of us
that are just yearning to be set free!  Only then will we develop better
software, in the most natural way.