Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world?
To   : comp.programming
From : Flavius Vespasianus
Date : Sat Jul 23 2005 06:48 am

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.nospamm.com> wrote in 
news:PqqdnZ5bGokY5nzfRVn-1Q@comcast.com:

> 
> "Mike Deeth" <mike_deeth@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1122071054.876109.126310@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>      If I ran a company, I wouldn't let any of these people within 10
>> feet of a computer.  I wouldn't trust them to write "hello world".  And
>> that includes the instructor.
> 
> Many of the best programmers I know have never taken a course in
> programming. They have degrees in physics.

Wny do CS majors make the worst programmers?

Easy.

If you major in CS and you can't program, what else can you do?

People from other fields who do programming are there because they can do 
it well.

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