Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1460

Here in alt.folklore.computers,

I tend to hope that any person who writes or designs software would continue to be an attentive student of such things throughout their career (and beyond that, if they should choose to stay with it after retirement).

There's no reason to stop being a student. One never learns it all, and in this industry it seems like there's more to learn every year.

I've known very good professors and very poor professors, just as I've known very good programmers and very poor ones.

Each has their own individual reason(s) for being where they are.

I'm not interested in education theory. I'm more interested in knowing that the folks I end up mentoring or otherwise working with in the field are actually capable of understanding and adapting to our methodologies and working effectively with our existing and future production systems.

I've encountered people who supposedly had "computer science" degrees own without retraining. That is *beyond* excuse, in my opinion.

-- OS-2 + eCS + Linux + Win95 + DOS + PC-GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! WARNING: I've seen FIELDATA FORTRAN V and I know how to use it! The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.