On Jan 11, 2008 7:27 AM, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a withering attack on those responsible for setting the curriculum > for computer science courses, doctors Robert Dewar and Edmond > Schonberg of New York University (and principals of Ada language > specialist Adacore) have said the lack of mathematical rigor and > formal techniques is producing "replaceable professionals" more suited > to the outsourcing industry than software development.
Based merely on your description, sounds like what these guys want to be are some high-paid non-replaceable ivory tower academics. While I agree that some languages are more productive than others, I think it would be naive to claim that these aspects of languages are the main causes of poor software quality and software project failures. Cheers, Carl /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
