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Subject:Re: Putative Inborn Inability to Program From:Mark Levinson <mark -at- SD -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Sun, 12 Nov 1995 18:19:28 IST
In my Anecdotes course at the Ronald Reagan Institute of the Unattributed,
I heard that back when you couldn't find programmers on the job market,
because the discipline was too new, IBM recruited trainees from various
disciplines and found that English majors as a group made fine programmers,
as good as math majors if not better. Giving a sane structure to a
subroutine, after all, involves the same skills as giving a sane structure
to a sentence.
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