A friend of mine (who coincidentally once shared an office with Vernor Vinge...) remarked to me early in my career that CS programs do a terrible job of teachin

A friend of mine (who coincidentally once shared an office with Vernor Vinge...) remarked to me early in my career that CS programs do a terrible job of teaching the history of the discipline. Students end up not knowing the failures (or even the successes!) of the discipline, and so end up rediscovering old new things. Makes a lot of software and systems practice more faddish and hype-driven than it needs to be.