On Saturday, September 1, 2018 10:44:57 PM MDT Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 09/01/2018 01:51 AM, rikki cattermole wrote: > > But in saying that, we had third year students starting out not > > understanding how cli arguments work so... > > How I wish that sort of thing surprised me ;) > > As part of the generation that grew up with BASIC on 80's home > computers, part of my spare time in high school involved some PalmOS > development (man I miss PalmOS). Wasn't exactly anything special - you > pony up a little $ for Watcom (or was it Borland?), open the IDE, follow > the docs, do everything you normally do. Read a book. Yawn. After that, > in college, had a job working on Palm and WAP websites (anyone remember > those? Bonus points if you remember the Palm version - without WiFi or > telephony it was an interesting semi-mobile experience). > > Imagine my shock another year after that when I saw the college I was > attending bragging how their computer science *graduate* students...with > the help and guidance of a professor...had gotten a hello world "running > on an actual Palm Pilot!" Wow! Can your grad students also tie their own > shoes and wipe their own noses with nothing more than their own wits and > somebody else to help them do it??? Because, gee golly, that would be > one swell accomplishment! Wow! Hold your hat, Mr. Dean, because Ivy > League, here you come!!
Ouch. Seriously, seriously ouch. - Jonathan M Davis
