Nadav Har'El
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:23:36 -0700
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001, Alon Altman wrote about "Re: [Haifux] Re: using unix page: early draft": > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > You can teach csh > > as some archaic language (like Latin is taught), but it should not be taught > > as the tool of choice. > > So, the ingenious solution would be to teach Intercal, Befunge, and > Brainf**k, so the students can see interesting new languages, right? No. I thought I was clear: I just said that sh (or bash, or whatever) should be taught instead of csh. One instead of one. A better one instead of a crappy one. A useful one (probably 99% of shell scripts in a typical unix system are written in /bin/sh, not csh) instead of a useless one. I didn't say anything about learning more crazy (and 100% useless) languages, and I didn't say anything which is overly "ideal" like mulix suggested. If you TAs only know how to copy the notes of the people before you, and the professors can't be bothered to learn a new (new? /bin/sh has existed for about 25 years!!) language, and everyone continues to teach something which they know is suboptimal - then I just have to say that this is a sad state of affairs for the Technion. Remember - if you agree that something is suboptimal - even if only slightly - then it is the teacher's duty to teach the optimal thing. The 10 hours of work for making new exercises by the teacher is nothing compared to all the crap the hundreds of students taking this course will eat later by using csh. I'll shut up on this issue now, until perhaps one day I'll come back to the Technion as a PhD candidate and try to change this from the inside ;) -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Sep 18 2001, 1 Tishri 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |From the Linux getopt(3) manpage: "BUGS: http://nadav.harel.org.il |This manpage is confusing." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]