RE: Slightly OT: Lighten things up a little

[Olive, Christopher M Mr USACHPPM]

i'm afraid i'd have to disagree with that.  i may not "use" anything i
learned in college in respect that they never taught me ASP, CF, IIS, etc.
however, the concept of a stack, queue, linked list, structure, array, etc.,
is universal to languages (ok, well, most languages).  it is in
*understanding* the concepts of these things that college shows its value.
because of this (fairly) solid foundation in programming *theory*, i am
better able to leverage my skill sets in languages i know.  more
importantly, they help me in learning something new.  when you boil it down,
all languages are the same (ok, there are sub-types of programming languages
(procedural, functional, OO)), all you need to know is where to put the semi
colons.

Chris Olive
DOHRS Website Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Lighten things up a little


No kidding .. I have not used 1 single thing I ever 'learned' in college in
any job I have had since then.  I learned what I'm doing now on my own (with
the help of you fine people) ... wacky field we work in ;)  That new
certification from Allaire will be worth infinately more than that piece of
paper the college gives you.

.Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Lighten things up a little


| I doesn't... if you had years of sitting around with nothing to useful to
| do, you'd achieve exactly the same, college or not :-)
|
| Chris


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