Dear FOSSouls,
We all know Mr. Yashwant Kanetkar, who has not invented 'C' but is probably closer to Indian students than Dennis Ritchie through his books like 'Let us C' and others. He started his book writing in DOS/Windows Era of PC when Turbo C++ IDE of 1991 was ubiquitous. His books and their content have become integral part of computing spaces in India. He has actually 'trained' a complete generation of 'C' programmers. At the same time, it is very unfortunate that he stills maintains his stand that 'Turbo C++' is the 'simplest' thing to learn C/C++. the lastest version of his 'C' books does have a chapter on Linux but that is a mere eyewash and 95% code shown in the books is for Turbo C++. Unfortunately, most computer labs in colleges still use Turbo C++ IDE of 1991!! The faculty fraternity looks at Turbo C++ as a de facto standard in which they have been tranined and the legacy goes on and on. Even AICTE and its NBA arm does not disapprove this culture and the colleges get all right to run Turbo C++. There are a number of people in FOSS space who will probably end up their lives fighting with the blue screen of death 'Turbo C++' IDE. Can we do something for this? Mr. Kanetkar has been declared as 'best .net technical contributor' by Microsoft. He probably has no respect for FOSS and UNIX culture. In ancient times, he wrote a book on UNIX shell programming and its second edition is due for long. Can we do something 'top to bottom' for this? -- Mohit Singh GNU/Linux User Group - Meerut _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
