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In article <1992Apr9.050944.737@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>	It would appear that, in general, universities train CS students
>to learn about computer science, and not 'how to program in language X'.
>This is probably the best way of going about things, as learning a 
>language is really a matter of getting a book and reading it.  Thus,
>universities can spend their time teaching paradigms and somewhat more
>important and theoretically useful things.
>	However, for the most part, this isn't what corporations want,
>and most people end up having to learn COBOL and dBASE...
>	Kinda sad.

 A lot of what universities teach prepares the student for teaching
 and research in the subject.  Sometimes this directly conflicts
 with a student's goal of getting vocational training for a
 high-paying job, and a corporation's hope that the student will be
 turned out ready to mesh into the organization and start cranking
 out code, designs, mods or documentation equal in value to the
 salary being paid within weeks of hiring.  The "kinda sad" part is
 that the student trained to think in general and with a broad
 knowledge of a subject is going to be a lot more productive over
 the long term, after the product which needs development of
 support right now is history.  But try telling that to the manager
 whose whole life is devoted to the next quarterly report and to
 this year's production goals.