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Reged: 09/30/03
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Loc: Franklin, Pa
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Re: The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
05/29/07 07:07 AM
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Hmmm, and I was mad Clarion University of PA was teaching COBOL in 2000. Three semesters @ $500 a course wasted. I know Universities like to waste students money, but damn, I thought it was a waste in the 80s when I took it up at a Vo-Tech school. (1986)
> > Software development skills are dying out in general. Now you get "software > > engineers" who don't understand memory management, O(n) algorithm > > complexity/performance issues, scalability, modularity, etc. You get people build > > things ad-hoc without doing any up-front design, and they have to completely > rebuild > > it when they fond that it doesn't scale, or uses too much memory, or doesn't > perform. > > Plus you get people who've never touched anything but Visual Studio, don't know how > to operate a command line, and think everything uses the Win32 API. Some days I > suspect the Xbox and Windows Mobile exist just to make those people employable so > universities can continue to dumb down and not get called on it. (The irony of course > is that MS themselves don't hire people like that - their interview process is much > more stringent).
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