Tim S wrote:
Adrian coughed up some electrons that declared:

Tim S gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

And doing a proper Computer Science degree IMO will cut more sway than a
Computer Technology degree. The former is to the latter as Applied
Mathematics/Physics is to Vehicle Servicing.

BTW - I don't have a CompSci degree
I do.

- I worked in the "hard way" from another numerate discipline - I wish
I had done CompSci because it would have made doing the right thing the
first time much easier in so many projects...
I wouldn't put money on that...

Well, it was just silly things like having a more formal approach, having a
pocket full of algorithms instead of having to dig through Knuth or the
internet every time I wanted to do something a little bit interesting...

in my experience compsci were the worst coders.

Mathematicians and physicists and engineers all had them beaten into a
cocked hat before they could even open Knuth.

The engfineers gerenally fiound somoen who had doen it first, ripped off
te code and had it working first, but a bit buggy.

The phsicists and scientists thought about it first THEN rippoed off te
code, took a bit longer and produced a better result.

Te mathematicians thought about it a lot, reduced it to some sort of
equation, and eventually dio teh best job of all.

The computers scientists spent ALL the time deciding which of two
hopelessly impractical approaches was 'the most elegant' or worst of
all, tried to code as if it was an exercise in pseudo coed and object
oriented design, and got themselves into such a mess that they had to be
taken off the project altogether.

Best of all were software engineers. People with a practical bent who
knew JUST enough about the WHOLE of a computer system to work out where
performance mattered, and were thick enough themselves to write clean
simple code that got the job done if not that elegantly, at least
understandably, and where to ask in the mathematicians to do the one
tricky algorithm they couldn't get their brains round.