----- Original Message ---- On Monday 13 November 2006 01:23, John Andersen wrote:
Its already been decided. Virtually every university world wide has yanked computers, programming, and systems analysis out of math departments and created Computer Science departments.
By and large they were forced to do this by funding reasons, when business communities started demanding IT workers that were attuned to getting the business done rather than proving some obscure theorem.
And this short-termism contributes, in my in adequately humble opinion, to the seemingly inexorable rise in poor quality programmers who reinvent everything and make the same mistakes time and again (particularly the security-related ones.) Cheers, an old geek who learned everything from electrons/holes upwards, built hardware, wrote machine code on toggle switches, and somehow survived to become the grumpy old codger he is now :) "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org