On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:56:01PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:40PM -0800, Todd Walton spake thusly:
> > -todd "what the hell is computer science for?" walton
> 
> "Most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically
> Java vocational training." - Alan Kay
> 

snarfed.

I can remember when everyone coming out of UCSD had never had experience
with anything (editor, compiler, etc) outside of UCSD Pascal. Somebody
once made the criticism to me that Pascal obscured the machine from the
student, and I replied that UCSD Pascal obscured the Pascal from the
student.

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