Mohit Singh writes: >> Get it removed and you'll earn yourself a mention in Steven Levitt and >> Stephen >> Dubner's SuperDuperFreakononmics, when they'll mention how softwares >> originating from .IN has improved in the quality, with nearly zaroo bugs, and >> wonder how the hell it happened, how a generation of awesome C programmers >> came into existence, and then you'll get a mention about your struggle to get >> the book kicked out of the syllabus.
> Its not a one man task to remove anything from the syllabus at such a > massive scale. every university is autonomous. They have their own BoS > to decide what to put and what not. No pain no gain :D > 'Let us C' or any book creeps in the syllabus by a process and it > stays there until it gets the label of 'highly outdated'. The 9th > revision has removed the DOS crap with every program. Now all that is > in DOS specific chapter only. > All the IITs are using TC/DOS based systems even today. Professors > dont change their mindset so easily. I have seen that its almost a > fight with the TC/DOS system fans before asking them to do C/UNIX. > Before proclaiming being Microsoft-free, a war remains - 'declaring > Turbo C++ free'. sigh! -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ Avoid Success At All Costs !!
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