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The very first text editor 3664
On 18 Jun 2006 21:39:46 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, When I taught some introductory courses, standard documentation, formatting, layout, comment, compilation, end, and submission requirements were specified; email or floppy media submissions were accepted, and...
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snip I'm glad you're not in charge of hiring and firing decisions in my department, then. This is someone who has been teaching beginning programming with apparent success for...
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Checking my syllabus... Unless otherwise stated for a particular buttignment, your program will be tested with the Linux systems in the CS domain. It doesn't matter if it works...
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So, students who read the syllabus know that you do plan to compile and test their code. (If your students are like mine, they don't all read the syllabus, but I tell them that...
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There have to be. Everytime a new functionality is shipped, there will an incompatibility. Oh, I see. Well, nobody ever agreed on what a newline character was. VMS "solved" the problem by having none. What...
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That's intrinsically the metalanguage, and clbutt of clbuttes 'is it a clbutt?' problem. If love is the end of...
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I have no idea what you're talking about. Sorry. And they shouldn't if they're using a computer system as a convenient tool in some other...
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re: i.e. the industry service that was collecting customer erep data and doing monthly published summaries ... across wide variety...
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standard system stuff is EREP ... i remember early in the 3380 cycle where they added predictive maintenance based on soft-recoverable error trend analysis. there was an industry service that collected customer...
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Maybe the only way he knew how to e-mail anything was by typing it into Word and doing some sort of bizarre cut & paste operation. As for me, whenever I want...
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snip No, it was a serious question. I'm guessing that the point you're trying to make here is that there is a difference between a plain-text file...
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snip You might be right about the incomplete being the most correct thing to do. Be advised, though, that my intent was not to "help" the student so much as...
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snip Well, it might be different at different universities, and I probably should have said earlier that official policy at my university is that incompletes are...
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Fair enough. Want to weigh in on the original question, which is what to do when the student turns...
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snip Yeah. I guess my standards, when I was on the student side of this transaction, were a little higher...
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It depends on the clbutt, the level, and the language. In an introductory clbutt in a new language (say, a first C course or an buttembly course) the first few programs should get...
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snip snip Indeed. You're making me think maybe I need to reconsider .... Overall I'm disinclined to give zero points when someone has made an attempt, however bad. But that...
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snip See my response to Elliott's post. There are plenty of circumstances in which a student would not produce compilable code for an buttignment by the deadline for its submission, and...
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It's not just the social atbreastude. It's the fault of the system that some kid reinstalling Windows needs a...
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Of course there were those subjects..mostly humanities crap. If I couldn't figure out a way...
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I only took one Humanities clbutt that was actually aimed at Humanities majors. After having spent several years pitying those poor stupid fools who'd wandered into clbuttes in my majors...
golf was: The very first text editor
What's this got to do with editors? I didn't see JMC last evening as he decided to skip out in prep to going to Dartmouth. I'll just...
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says... Generally that's true if there is a replacement of requirements, though if a requirement is simply dropped those in the process can take advantage of the change (and use any credits elsewhere...
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This is somewhat of a surprise to non-divers; but cod is a very inquisitive species. On divesites where the...
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Elliott Roper We all have prejudices that simplify our decision making, but sometimes they lead to bad choices. There's a certain mindset that makes a good programmer. People...
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In an abstract arm-waving way, that is a very plausible argument, but it is not...
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Elliott Roper --snip i think there is some of this in all the great high energy physics labs, and in several other physics departments in the...
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This is easy answer. VMS didn't get in their way. When they needed help to get something done...
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snip All so very true. I particularly like the part about quality of raw material -- some is, of course, quite good, but...
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Hmm. I did, didn't I? 1984 is one of the most masterful exploitations of irony in modern literature. What I meant about not waiting for the critics...
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Have you missed the aspect that the irony is already a second derivative? What do you think the word "fair" is? It's a subsbreastution of 1984's term "equal". I understood :-). A machine...
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puzzled emoticon here That's exactly what I meant when I said "Incomplete". Look. There nothing sinful about an incomplete. JMF had a...
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It all depends on the interpretation of "unable to finish the course due to circumstances beyond their control." What my university means by this -- and I suspect Joe's...
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actually had a business person reporting oriented application happen in the early 90s on unix. shell script that...
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writes: Still, vi does let you do those operations, you just have to do it a bit differently. Instead of...
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Yup. Now go read my reply to his question :-). I tried to describe a TECO command sequence and f***ed it all up because I had to...
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we must have been typing our replies in parallel. We are in violent agreement. BTDT I tried. I tried. I even got quite good at Microsoft Word (how different...
wikipedia: history of computing
Admission: I first heard of Wikis on a CIA visit. I know they are apparently used extensively (but not...
history of computing 3702
Your cross-hyperlinked archives of postings are an excellent example of the sponginess that is part of how things should be described...
history of computing 3703
Tim Shoppa ref: so the past posts get updated in the header with Refed field which are the subsequent posts that reference the past posts; the RFC summary information for references, obsoletes, updates, etc ... are...
More on CommVEx v2
Only 2 months to go to the July 29-30 Commodore Vegas Expo, only 2 months to fun and frivolity at the best West Coast show for Commodore and...
TOD clock discussion
circa 1980, STL wanted to relocate something like 300 of the IMS people to an offsite building about 10 miles away. They looked at remote 3270 support into the STL datacenter but found it totally...
Miniaturized electronic tubes
The invention of the transistor, more compact and reliable than any valve, and subsequently the progressive miniaturization and integration of solid state circuits, was the decisive phase for...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006
Hey everyone, It's been a while since I've last been in this group (csma), and I...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3708
Peter Bjørn Perlsø I find it somewhat odd that you cross-post this utterly OT junk to a.f.c. However in the spirit...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3709
OSX is indeed quite fragile- perhaps even more so than Windows. Not necessarily with respect to actual system lockups, but if a user starts working with fancying up the ipfw rules or making an...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3710
Some are, but usually (repeat "usually") not about computers. Apple has actually done a fine...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3711
Could have been. I've worked with more than a few DEC folks and they sometimes seemed a bit dazzled by the "real world." Mostly because it was odder than they'd expected, or at least...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3712
No. Read again. The painter is indeed painting. Expressing his or her talents using the tools available. They need not understand how paints or brushes...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3713
They are, but only with appliances: From "The Zen of Programming" (c) 1988 Geoffrey James, published by Info Books: A novice went into the master's...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3714
Oh get real- if I set up a startupitem in OS X that sets up a firewall & NAT for...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3715
Hehe. That's not the computer, that's the OS. The only reason it's more secure is that hardly anyone uses it. It has been proven that OS X(Unix) can get viruses too and you...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3716
Since this is c.s.mac.advocacy, we clearly cannot let all this pro-mac stuff stand unanswered! :D...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3717
On 16 Jun 2006 09:45:34 GMT Hmm not been on those roads, sounds like the south west of the county, here in the north of the county the problem tends to be that many of...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3718
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:50:33 +0800, Bernd Felsche Historically, Scotti were Irish, the term was used to...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3719
One of the myths surrounding the modern digital satellite signals is that it is overly sensitive to...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3720
krw SBS had originally been formed equal partners with IBM, Comsat, and Aetna ... for doing computer-to-computer data transmissions...