In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
06/29/2006
at 10:29 AM, "Craddock, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Maybe they thought Knuth had already written down everything that
>would ever be needed. Given the way academia operates, I'd say they
>do it because their schools are happy to keep turning out gormless
>baboons as long as the enrollment money keeps flowing in.
Don't hold back; tell us what you really think.
Personally, I believe that they *should* teach programming, but not as
they do it know. I believe that CS majors should be exposed to a
variety of languages, as different from each other as possible.
Similarly for operating systems. They should learn the Perl mantra:
there's more than one way to do it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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