On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Why dont you (Mohit) try to contact and talk to Mr.Kanetkar ? Maybe you > can > > invite him for some event. > > > > Being a technical person-- I am sure even he will be happy to expand his > > horizons. > > > > You probably wont be able to convert him-- but you can definitely expand > his > > horizons ? Cant you ? > > This is a nice optimism and I hope it works. Thanks for the confidence > shown in me. > > Microsoft and Kanetkar go hand in hand today. He has opened a universe > of training business around Micosoft technologies. He is free as in > freedom for that. > > We have only one concern with the man - he is poisoning budding minds > with TURBO C++ IDE and that is really bad. He has a very very large > young audience and he must be sensitive to what he is saying to them > for their future! > > > Mohit, I have actually seen kids about to pass out of college-- who do not know about "#define" statement-- and who will work 6-7 months on a project without knowing that. I have actually had conversations where I talk of a "true 32 bit operating system"-- and the guy says "ohh !!! so Linux on Atom processor is a 232 bit Operating system ?"; "Windows is only till 64-bits". Also, if you mention "White Book" or "New Testament" to many they will not know you are talking of "K & R". This is the stuff you should be fighting against-- more than turbo-c (which incidentally runs very well even inside Wine). Even google has shifted away somewhat from it's unstated "no windows" to a unstated "use what works"-- and these days they are pumping money into improving stability of Wine and encouraging it's further development. In My humble opinion; They Key here is "Computing Culture" and depth of thought... not "anti-microsoft" or "no turbo-c". Regards, Nalin -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
