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Where I grew up the distinction didn't happen until high school, and even then there was a large overlap between AP Calculus and AP English. Computer Science was a different beast - we were a subset of the Math nerds that didn't necessarily get into English due to the imprecision.

The irony is that the precision of CS makes us better writers because we can see the inconsistencies. (How many requirements documents can be interpreted multiple ways?) Between undergrad and grad the Math/Verbal spread on my standardized tests flipped.




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