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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111d6b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid111d6b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java? Date: 1998/01/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 317396403 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <67et6o$dql@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> <882757510snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <67ktrg$ibk@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> <883319809snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <68bt2p$d48@lotho.delphi.com> <34a991f0.2379476@news.diac.com> <68dm0i$brv1@news.fiberlink.net> <01bd198f$4050d960$68c8b5cc@dhite.unicomp.net> <34B71B71.1EFDCAD8@ix.netcom.com> <34B8DC0F.BA0554DB@acm.org> <01bd1ebd$8580b9a0$b2684bc2@xzSys> <34BA520B.534F@mail.state.wi.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Raytheon Electronic Systems Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , anonymous@anonymous.org (anonymous) wrote: > Ah, the old discipline bigotry problem.......... [snip] > It would seem to me however that in this day and age,in a typical > eduactional setting, a Chemistry student would be more likely to have a > higer degree of exposure to programming than a programmer major would to > Chemistry but not by much.. maybe a year.. It's really very simple. Anyone smart enough and focused enough to earn a PhD in *any* hard-core technical subject can learn programming and computer science on the job, and is therefore a good bet. One of the best programmers / engineers I ever hired had degrees in Linguistics and Mathematical Linguistics. IBM used to hire PhDs in Philosophy as Systems Analysts, with great success. Perhaps they still do. Computer science is a branch of applied mathematics, so the converse is not true -- A computer science degree does not help with understanding of the physical sciences. If the problem requires such understanding, a pure computer science person is likely to fail, for lack of necessary background. Joe Gwinn