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 stays there until it gets the label of 'highly outdated'.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
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