On Jan 17, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Stewart Stremler wrote:

...and "be a programmer" was a get-rich-quick scheme in the 90s...

When I was an undergrad TA back at ISU during the prime of the dotcom bubble, I swear that 3/4ths of the students in CS were there because it supposedly led to a profitable existence.

"Thar be moneys in them thar kahmpootahrs!"

Of course, the first two semesters of CS courses usually whittled the crowd down to those that were either really good at faking it or just plain really good.

Gregory

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