> I think the much more important skill is designing systems Systems engineering is a seperate discipline in engineering fields, same applies to CS I would thi

> I think the much more important skill is designing systems Systems engineering is a seperate discipline in engineering fields, same applies to CS I would think, specifically if you look at what most developers do as computer engineering it would only make sense that there is forward progression within the discipline that builds on the foundations tought in most CS courses. Regarding CS not teaching caching, well any course writer in a CS program that doesn't at least touch on that should feel like they failed their students, it is really something fundamental that should be tought pretty soon. I feel like profiling should be something that is tought somewhere in a CS program, even a half semester course can dramatically improve peoples understanding of what the machine is actually doing. On that note, even if you never intend to use the language, watch some C++ conference talks, almost every year at every conference thwre is a talk discussing performance.