In <[email protected]>, on 08/21/2014
at 08:25 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> said:
>I don't know how colleges train people in IT these days, but in the
>old days students were taught basic programming concepts and
>algorithms and exposed to many different programming languages in
>order to appreciate that no single programming language is optimal
>for all tasks.
The high schools are teaching the language du jour, not concepts.
--
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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