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Computing's Lost Allure

Posted by michael on from the grass-somewhat-less-green dept.

khendron writes "An article in the New York Times, describes how the number of students majoring in computer science in university has dropped off with the rest of the hi-tech economy. The bright side: the students who are enrolling are doing so because they love computers. Not like a few years ago when students were enrolling because they wanted to make a quick buck. I'll take quality over quantity."

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  1. Re:Preach it brother by nickos · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmm. You're quite correct. That is a standard way of implementing an infinite loop. That is not to say that breaking out of infinite loops is good practice however.

    You may want to read up on a paradigm that's sweeping the software industry ;) It's called structured programming: see Dijkstras Go To Statement Considered Harmful