>>14093462CS is still the new STEM subject that gets huge amount of academic funding. Undergrad pushes out a lot of codemonkeys sure, but I find that /sci/'s hatred goes even further - it's like they've decided that computers are trivial applications of engineering and don't command the same reverence as its older brothers...even though CS was largely founded by and studied by mathematicians, physicists, and electrical engineers.
In about 50 more years, once the curriculum in undergrad matures and CS is accepted as both a mathematical science / proper engineering, probably after a new stem subject enters the stage, it'll be pretty funny people talking about CS as though it was always loved.
Given the immense success of machine learning, distributed systems, optimization, and algorithms, and (among theorists) complexity, it's really hard to argue that CS isn't respected academically and professionally.
