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Re: Y Store now C++

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From: "Kevin Kelleher" <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:56:33 -0500 (EST)
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Trevis Rothwell said:
>
> I once read that while the number of students majoring in computer
> science has increased dramatically (compared to, say, 1980?), the
> number of students who are actually good at it has stayed about
> the same.
>
> Could this be the source of many of the "average" programmers?
>

How many programmers majored in CS?  I've met very few.  Even
when I worked at MIT.

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Kevin Kelleher <kkell@znet.com>

References:
- Re: Y Store now C++
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- Re: Y Store now C++
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- Re: Y Store now C++
  - From: Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu>
- Re: Y Store now C++
  - From: Trevis Rothwell <tjr@acm.org>

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