Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: EE or CS? Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:40:08 +1300 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <4f2b11b3-c551-4901-90bb-c4228a89fbd3@googlegroups.com> <640e7260-4a3f-47bd-b2da-f637f5555a0c@googlegroups.com> <7233acf9-e82c-402b-a0e8-01024efd5695@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 7L6IRDnFqdldxVU9elw3uQspkUatiKncd5Ta1KMJAlnjrRLfJ1vfaKDK41Vl4DCz1G Cancel-Lock: sha1:uEm+sLi42OwNJVQ3lARa3KRC5mc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <7233acf9-e82c-402b-a0e8-01024efd5695@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:3072 Dan wrote: > > I totally agree that knowing something about the underlying machine > can only be helpful... and for some (not most) applications, is > tantamount to creating good software. However, that still has > nothing to do with electrical engineering. I truly do need an > electrical engineer to design a computer. Good lord, I hope not! You want an Electronics engineer to design a computer. Just as I wouldn't fiddle with the power grid, I wouldn't let my Electrical engineering colleagues near my computer's innards... -- Ian Collins