mulix
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:51:26 -0700
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "[Haifux] using unix page: early >draft": > > In this course the students write two c++ assignments, and one csh > > assignment (right, Alon?) > > Forgive my asking (I guess that everybody here already knows my position on > csh ;)), but why is the Technion still teaching csh?? Csh has been considered > inferior to almost any alternative (ksh, bash, zsh) for at least a decade... > Do they teach csh anywhere else in the world? the technion teaches csh, i suppose, because by the time most students take this course (second semester), the ONLY programming language they've seen is, you guessed it, c. [1] the "common wisdom" says that it's better not to confuse them with a different programming language syntax. an interesting trivia peace is that the csh assignment is considered by far the easiest in the class, and usually takes the least time to complete. [1] ok, they've also seen some pdp11 asm. irrelevant. -- mulix http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix http://www.sf.net/projects/syscalltrack -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]