Is Computer Science Dead? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 12, 2007 @08:51PM from the pining-for-the-fjords dept.

warm sushi writes "An academic at the British Computing Society asks, Is computer science dead? Citing falling student enrollments and improved technology, British academic Neil McBride claims that off-the-shelf solutions are removing much of the demand for high-level development skills: 'As commercial software products have matured, it no longer makes sense for organizations to develop software from scratch. Accounting packages, enterprise resource packages, customer relationship management systems are the order of the day: stable, well-proven and easily available.' Is that quote laughable? Or has the software development industry stabilized to an off-the-self commodity?"

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Is slashdot sensationalist?!?!!? by sentientbrendan · 2007-03-13 09:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait

next on fox new-er slashdot, flying hippos are eating your invisible babies, and you can't do anything to stop them! Known terrorist, bill gates, pledges to sell more software! Is linux under attack?!?!

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