hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) (02/26/86)
In article <4983@kestrel.ARPA> ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin) writes: >In article <165@ttidcc.UUCP>, hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes: >(snyder) >> > Also, 4 or more years of studying hard is not 'Instant'. >(hollombe) >> It certainly isn't. It's not real world either. > >Yet another stereotype. And here's another - I've found many >people that talk of the *real world* actually have experience >of a small part of it. Do you fit this one, Jerry? To wax philosophical, we _all_ have experience of a small part of the real world. Some more so than others. I've worked on a number of different projects running on a range of hardware and operating systems. They've included (among other things) COBOL report writers, Space Shuttle test beds, PC graphics, and ATM systems in languages ranging from assembler to Ada. Environments ranged from rigidly standardized to totally chaotic. All of it was paid, professional experience. >Significant parts of computer science are only accessible to >someone with considerable academic training. No argument here. > Snyder is >embarked on this path, and I thought his comments were appropriate. >How is following this path not *real world*? Following the path is real world. Undergraduate academic experience generally isn't. How many undergrad cs majors ever get handed a 200,000 line FORTRAN program to maintain? How often do they get to debug someone else's code, 5 years after said someone else left the company? _That's_ real world. >BTW, this discussion is also continuing in net.cse, with a partially >different group of subscribers. I've edited the newsgroups line to move this out of net.singles. I don't often read net.cse, so you'll probably have the last word. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp(+)TTI 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Geniuses are people so lazy they Santa Monica, CA 90405 do everything right the first time. (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe