Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote: Hi Carl-Mitchell,
Please stay on the list. I will address that. > I'll take this offline, since I do not think it should be on the list I disagree. With all due respect, you and I have not developed a personal correspondence. There are some very good reasons for the custom of keeping our discussions on-list. > > Perhaps, but is it what he asked for. I think it does a disservice > > to students > > to silently fill in the gaps in their logic. You can give them the > > right answer to a particular problem, but still leave them without an > > awareness of the need to be precise in their specification. > > I do not think it is a disservice. I thought the specifications were > very clear. I think you were mistaken in your interpretation and I was > pointing it out. I have no problem being corrected when I am wrong. And > we can certainly discuss offline our diagreement and whether I am doing > a disservice to students. No. The subject of learning itself, the learning process, and what helps or hinders or helps the learning process, is a discussion that students using the list as a resource should be aware of. It is not meant as a comment on any person, but on a need for care in specification very particular to the task of learning to program. > I do not think I was. Can you elaborate on > what you mean by "disservice". That is fine, although it was not me you were responding to in the post to which I responded. I suspect you are right about the actual intent. All I can tell you is that I have watched a lot of traffic on this list, and I have seen a lot of floundering where people have too quickly re-interpreted a specification. > > Mu interpretation of the OP requirments was something like processing an > input file with 20 lines per entry and counting the entries. That is a > fairly practical problem. Agreed. > Smoot Carl-Mitchell I am sorry if you take any personal offense here. No offense was intended, only discussion. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
