MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

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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