> Much of what can be said about CS in the UK is true of the "technical middle class" in general. Going on a tangent here, but I observed the same thing while

> Much of what can be said about CS in the UK is true of the "technical middle class" in general. Going on a tangent here, but I observed the same thing while reading Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" when I was in high-school (20+ years ago), i.e. that the "technical middle class" and even the "technical upper class" of late 19th century France were way below the aristocracy of that time. A respected engineer who had graduated from the "École des mines" and who might have even held a job as a Government minister had no chance to attend the parties hosted by the duchesse de Guermantes. Things might have changed in the meantime, though.