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The industry wouldn't look the same, either: it wouldn't be nearly as profitable or widespread as it has become, and nobody but CS academics would care about it
by sidlls 9y ago
The industry wouldn't look the same, either: it wouldn't be nearly as profitable or widespread as it has become, and nobody but CS academics would care about it.
- bitL 9y agoAll you need to do is to enforce functional programming everywhere and only CS academics would stay ;-)
- Apocryphon 9y agoOn the other hand, perhaps the quality of code would go up?
- 35bge57dtjku 9y agoI've seen too many projects created by people with higher degrees to bet on that.
- knicholes 9y agoAfter personally seeing two large, recent acquisitions, I can attest that code quality != business value.
- sidlls 9y agoI've been through an acquisition or two in my day (on the acquiring side). I'd echo knicholes' comment about that and go further: in my experience code quality and degree credential don't seem to have any relationship.
- pjmlp 9y agoAnd it would be much better, we would stop having pseudo-"engineers".
- barry-cotter 9y agoQuite, we should also eliminate nurses. The minimum qualification to work in healthcare should be a medical degree, just like we shouldn’t allow any car that’s worse in an accident than a Tesla on the road.
- pjmlp 9y agoMost European countries require a 4 year degree for nurses, where the first two years are kind of shared with medical degree.
- 35bge57dtjku 9y agoAFAIK, most or all US schools have required a 4 year degree for a long time now.
- barry-cotter 9y agoKind of shared? Nursing https://www.ucc.ie/en/ck710/ https://www.ucc.ie/en/ck710/ Medicine https://www.ucc.ie/en/ck701/ https://www.ucc.ie/en/ck701/ There is not one single shared course between the two degrees. If you can find a course shared between medical and nursing students in all of Europe I'd be surprised.
- pjmlp 9y agoPortugal, Spain and Greece as the examples I know. Nursing is taught at many universities with medical degree, first and second year students tend to share some of the lectures. Also, because of that, people with nursing degree are able to acquire a medical degree by taking the extra lectures and exams afterwards.
- barry-cotter 9y agoCould you furnish me an example from Western Europe please then? I am familiar enough with the Romance languages to read Portuguese or Spanish if there’s a university with any/substantial overlap between nursing and medicine.