Overspecialization in the Computer Field?

Posted by Cliff on Monday October 28, 2002 @09:13PM from the has-anyone-else-noticed-this dept.

The Mainframe asks: "I visited a nameless college campus recently and was shocked at the degree of specialization within the student body. Of the many CS and other IT-related majors that I talked to, not a single one had any real breadth of experience. Web developers knew Perl, but couldn't tell Apache from MySQL. C++ coders knew their language, as long as it was presented in Microsoft Visual C++. I suspect if I'd asked them to use G++ they would have said 'bless you'. Essentially, I'm worried. I plan to do some very interesting things in the next few years, but I'm not going to be able to pull it off if I have to wade through 100 narrow-minded people for every 1 useful human being. Is this something that other employers and co-workers have been having a lot of problems with? Is the whole world having to show its database developers how to use a copying machine?"

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Re:The same thing over here by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-28 22:33 · Score: -1, Troll

LOL

I am a gooder super geenyus. I never got none enjyneirin sertificut er wha ever it is.

I am more better geenyus cuz I nevr gon to one of dun der univesitees. Geenyus like me aint gunna go theyr.

One day Id like two have seuhx with a University, man ta do one of em id me Suhweet.