On Nov 4, 4:14 pm, Jamie Paul Griffin <ja...@kode5.net> wrote: > / ru...@yahoo.com wrote on Fri 2.Nov'12 at 11:39:10 -0700 / > > > (I also hope I haven't just been suckered by a troll > > attempt, windows/unix is better then unix/windows being > > an age-old means of trolling.) > > No, i'm not a "troll". I was just adding my opinion to the thread, I assumed > that was allowed. I didn't say UNIX is better than Windows, did I; I just > feel that Windows is not -- for me anyway -- the most suitable plaform for > learning about the science of computing and coding, etc... being a computer > science student that's the view i have and share with those I learn with and > from. Why must people be accused of trolling everytime they make a statement > that conveys a preference over one platform or language, for example, than > the other. Provoking someone by labeling them a troll or implying they might > be is a bit childish really.
Hi Jamie Among people who know me, I am a linux nerd: My sister scolded me yesterday because I put files on her computer without spaces: DoesAnyoneWriteLikeThis?!?! Your post reminds me: As someone who has taught CS for 25 years, Ive not only been party to his Unix-fanboy viewpoint but have even actively fostered it. Over time Ive come to have some pangs of conscience about this. Evidently this kind of attitude has helped no one: not my students, not the corporations they join, not the society at large. So now, on my blog I maintain a record of the foibles of CS academics. http://blog.languager.org/2011/02/cs-education-is-fat-and-weak-1.html is a history of CS as it is normally given. http://blog.languager.org/2011/02/cs-education-is-fat-and-weak-2.html is the above deconstructed with stupidities of academic CS factored in. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
