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Re:New York City gets a Software Engineering High School by rgrieselhuber on Friday January 13, 2012 @01:08PM (#3461622)
> We don't need more philosophers.

Agreed but imagine how boring CS would be if people were ignorant of all of those other subjects.

Re:New York City gets a Software Engineering High School by 32ftpersecond on Friday January 13, 2012 @01:49PM (#3461795)
> We don't need more philosophers.

Disagree. There would be no computer science without philosophy (but not the other way around).

> ...imagine how boring CS would be if people were ignorant of all of those other subjects.

If we eliminate philosophy from our curriculum, et cetera, I poise that kids entering high school this year will be obsolete by the time they have graduated. Because CS without philosophy is really just machine learning, right?

Re:New York City gets a Software Engineering High School by rgrieselhuber on Friday January 13, 2012 @02:59PM (#3462115)
That's a fair point. I was already regretting my agreement with that notion.