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[ILUG] [OT] Whatever happened to real computer scientists?

[ILUG] [OT] Whatever happened to real computer scientists?

Kieran Tully Kieran.Tully at acm.org
Sat Apr 15 23:59:58 IST 2006


On 4/15/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> Don't students learn how to solder, and use a voltmeter,
> and things like that any more?

Perhaps for the same reason that none of the mathematicians
I asked could help me with my tax returns.
--
Kieran Tully, Software Developer and Tenor, http://kieran.tul.ly
--
Computer science is no more about computers
than astronomy is about telescopes. --  Edsger Dijkstra



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