Orr Dunkelman
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:12:19 -0700
I'l first point out that discussions about the way the technoin should teach (or not teach, or what to teach) might not interest all (I know, many of the subscribers to the list are Technion related, still...). I think what Tzafrir has done is good with no connection with my opinion on Matam (got 99, still have no idea how to code in C++, forgot after a day my CSH programming skills, and still have problems in including multiple files in compiling, I'm probably not a good programmer). This way people can have a better and friendlier introduction to UNIX, which might cuase some of them to stop the idiotic scheme (which I humbly admit I also used): 1 Write in MSVC (++) 2 Compile in MSVC 3 Reapet 1--2 until no bugs found 4 transger to UNIX platform (T2) 5 compile in gcc (g++) 6 fix portability errors in steps 4-5, major bugs - goto 1. 7 submit work. luckily for me I found out UNIX to be a very nice plaything (and started playing with it), but most didn't. by having a short explanation on how to use gdb (or ddd, without refering to quality, ddd was a great for me, as all I needed was a simle GUI debuger, not multi-process, multi-thrread, kernel code) people might get hooked on UNIX (and of course Linux). BTW, you are invited to ask the technoin to switch to other shells, etc. Kimchi of the CS dept. is usually a very broad horizon person. And if you want to encourge others t ouse your Editor/Shell/Mailer, write a god documentation for it (clear explnation how to use it, etc.) preferably with many examples and might even in Hebrew (Keep a logical and visual versions please). Orr Dunkelman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems" - Paul Erdos Spammers: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/spam.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]