On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Tom Christiansen <tchr...@perl.com> wrote: > Then they just aren't smart enough to handle programming, I guess.
What would be so stupid about that question? What would you reply if someone asked you that question? > I have never ever had the least problem. I've taught many thousands > of students, directly. I'm active in biology/bioinformatics, not software engineering or computer science: I work with people who often had only the most elementary classes in Perl, if that at all. My colleagues are not stupid, they just try to get their work done and use whatever tools at their disposal (in this case perl and its documentation) to assist them in that. I have never taught students directly, but I have had to indirectly teach them when working with them. Maybe they wouldn't have this problem if they had been properly taught, but that's a what-if scenario to me. > I don't believe you. Are you suggesting I'm lying?? Other people's experiences being different is not an excuse for discounting them. Leon
