On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:19:09PM -0500, Ray Cote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Yup. Amazing isn't it. I've not met a CS grad in the last 5 years who
> read any of Knuth's work in school. Some ran across him in extended
> reading, but nothing in the formal schooling. Sad to lose history
> this quickly.
Well, you'll be happy to know that all 6 or so of my fellow Taylor
University graduates here at Compaq (all graduating within in the last
4 years) have all read Brooks' _The_Mythical_Man-Month_ as part of
a software engineering course, at a minimum. :-)
--
Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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followers of."
-- Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future
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