Re: Programmers -> Engineers; Engineers -> Programmers

["Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>]

Jon S Anthony <jsa@ALEXANDRIA.AMERICAN.EDU> writes:
>In article <STEPHENB.96Aug16095012@sorrol.harlqn.co.uk>
>stephenb@harlequin.co.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
>
>> Indeed.  I was told (admittedly by a physicist) that people who took
>> EE were dullards; if they were, not they would have taken physics :-)
>>
>> No doubt there is some group who thinks that physicists are dullards ... etc.
>
>Ah, that would be us "pure" mathematicians.  Yep, I think the last few
>replies here pretty much define the intellectual pecking order. :-)
>
    And then we have the "B-School" students who are *truly* at the
    top of the pecking order:

    "You <mathematicians> <physicists> <engineers> <computer-scientists>
    go to school for 4+ years and work hard at it in order to get out
    and get a job paying 5 figures. Whereas *I* go to school for 4+
    years and learn how to exploit & oppress <mathematicians>
    <physicists> <engineers> <computer-scientists> for fun and profit,
    draining their brains of all their marketable ideas and taking full
    credit for them, get paid 'The Long Green', ride in corporate
    jets, wear Armani suits, have a company car, get stock options and
    (in the event of incompetence) have a golden parachute promising
    me megabucks just for getting fired! BwaHaHaHaHaHaaaaa!"

    Now who are the *real* 'dullards' in this picture?

    MDC

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