On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Bane <[email protected]> wrote: > Simen Kjaeraas Wrote: > >> On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:11:45 +0200, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > "Trass3r" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> > news:op.v2ze74ma3ncmek@enigma... >> >>> Now D is also quite cool, I would just like for the language compilers >> >>> to be a bit more stable. >> >> >> >> They have been vastly improving, really. >> >> >> >>> Currently I do have more sucess proposing C++11 based solutions as Go >> >>> or >> >>> D based ones, on the type of corporate environment I work in. >> >> >> >> That's not D's or Go's fault. Most guys especially in bigger >> >> corporations >> >> are plain ignorant and wear blinders. >> >> Strangely that even applies to universities. >> > >> > Not real surprising. Universities can be *enormously* ignorant and >> > conceited. (Community colleges too...my god, some of the flaming egos and >> > politics around there are mind-boggling, especially considering it's >> > *just* >> > a CC...) >> > >> >> Hell, they didn't even know about clang even though they were >> >> progressive >> >> enough to use C++0x. >> > >> > I once had a university professor who openly admitted C was the only >> > language he knew - and yet he didn't even understand how C's >> > null-terminated >> > strings work. So he didn't really even know that one language. >> >> I helped a friend with some assignments from a professor who wrote >> absolutely unreadable code, and who taught students to use int[101] >> to allocate 100 ints, because he couldn't grasp indexing from 0 to >> 99. >> >> I also really liked the assignment where we were told of a mythical >> processor that would multiply 2 NxN matrices in O(N^4) time. >> >> -- >> Simen > > Those who know, work with it. Those who don't know, teach it. > >
I'm at a research university, and I haven't really had this problem at all. I've had a professor teach us his commandments of multithreaded programming who admitted he used to be a bit of a hypocrite according to his own rules, but that's about it. I even have one professor who just came back from a one year sabbatical in which he worked at a startup.
