Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:29:05 -0700

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:11:39 +0000 (UTC), daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu
(David Wagner) wrote:

>Alan Balmer wrote:
>>On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:10:41 +0000 (UTC), "D. J. Bernstein"
>>>---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
>>>Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
>>
>>I really hope that you are teaching mathematics or statistics.
>
>For shame. You should be embarrassed to make comments like this.
>Bernstein is a fantastic computer scientist, and I'd be delighted to learn
>from him any day of the week. Do you believe that anyone you disagree
>with must be a poor teacher? Do you believe that you can dismiss the
>possibility that he is a good teacher from reading a few sci.crypt posts?

sci.crypt? Until you mentioned that, I hadn't noticed the cross-post.
He can spout all the nonsense he likes in sci.crypt, but I hope that
he isn't teaching students his views on standard C and the real world
of programming. Of course, we *do* have the tradition that a new CS
graduate is worthless in industry for the first year or two, and
perhaps this is how the tradition is maintained.

If Bernstein (or you) would like to argue the point, I suggest that
you move to comp.lang.c or comp.std.c. 

-- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net

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