| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 338.1 | Thanks! | COUNT0::WELSH | Just for CICS | Mon Jun 15 1992 06:36 | 5 |
| re .0:
Thanks for posting that. It's brilliant!
/Tom
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| 338.2 | some schools still going for C, they are not at ADA? why? | STAR::ABBASI | i^(-i) = SQRT(exp(PI)) | Thu Jun 25 1992 16:43 | 9 |
| i just received newsletter of college of Engineering for Northeastern
Univ., and in one section about changes they are considering:
"..Replace the present computer language courses (PASCAL and FORTRAN)
with a course on C language programming..."
... i did not understand the rational behind this..?
/nasser
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| 338.3 | | TOKLAS::feldman | Larix decidua, var. decify | Sat Jul 11 1992 17:08 | 7 |
| Northeastern is a very practical minded school. They're more
interested in teaching their students skills that will qualify them for
jobs than in improving the quality of software engineering in the US.
And there is much greater demand for C programming skill than Ada
programming skill.
Gary
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| 338.4 | Teaching pigs to sing? | TLE::AMARTIN | Alan H. Martin | Sun Oct 18 1992 17:13 | 19 |
| Re .3:
>Northeastern is ... more interested in teaching their students skills that will
>qualify them for jobs than in improving the quality of software engineering in
>the US.
Indeed, there's no mention of Software Engineering whatsoever in .2. You don't
suppose that the courses in question are intended to teach engineering students
how to write 3GL programs for research & development in their (non-computer)
fields?
If so, ...
I'm sure that for every CS/SWE professor stuck teaching Introduction to Fortran
who would like their charges to be subjected to several years of Ada, you can
find 100 humanities professors who would like to require composition of an opera
or novella as a part of an undergraduate engineering curriculum. They're both
about as likely to happen, too.
/AHM
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