On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 09:01:03AM +0530, Mohit Singh wrote: > > 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. > > '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 stays there until it gets the label of 'highly outdated'.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'. >
This is sad. But I think it's a win-win situation to have UNIX like systems in lab. Or atleast they can have both the systems and let the students decide on the OS they would like to use. > > > Mohit Singh > ------------------ > > Today's Imagination is Tomorrow's Innovation > Today's Innovation is Tomorrow's Common Sense > Today's Common Sense is Tomorrow's Nonsense > _______________________________________________ > bsd-india mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
