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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
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> And people wonder why the Education system in this country is a mess?
> With idiots like teaching no wonder. All the COBOL
> programmers retired "centuries ago" yet there are still
> (some) schools teaching COBOL. I guess mathematics and logic
> are no longer required to become a Computer Science
> Professor, since COBOL hasn't even existed for one century,
> let alone multiple.
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> Don't even get me started on the woes of the education system
> here. When second-graders are permitted to use calculators
> for arithmetic........
> (As they are here!)
>
> Common sense is becomming a very uncommon virtue. In
> California, I think it's already extinct.
Indeed, I think "common sense" has replaced "military intelligence" as
the prototypical oxymoron.
-jc-
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