On the fact that the Atlantic Ocean has two sides

isn't this the same paper that prompted alan-kay to remark that hubris in computing is measured in nano-dijkstra's ?

imho, he forgot to mention the conversion rate to micro-kays to make the comparison complete :)

Hardly unique to the US computing establishment.

Much, but not all, I suspect. A common complaint about British "computer science" courses today, when compared to their US counterparts, is that they're too focused on specific technologies and software engineering in general (rather than math and computational theory). This is one of the complaints D had of the US courses in the 70s. But perhaps things are different in his country.