Keynote address [summary]
Anthony Ralston · 1974
The first quarter century of computing has produced a small army of obsolete or obsolescent programmers - although most of them are still employed because their supervisors seldom understand that they are not competent. The cause of this obsolescence is only partly the rapid rate of change of computer technology and science; more important is the undereducation or bad education of many people who have entered our - and the term is used loosely - profession. Training can help but it won't solve the problem. Too many of these people are really untrainable because they lack the educational underpinnings which would enable them to learn new knowledge and techniques.