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

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:36:03 -0700

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:57:19 GMT, Bryan Olson <nameless@nowhere.org>
wrote:

>jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
> > "Douglas A. Gwyn" wrote:
> >>There is room, and reason, for two taskings: one to deal
> >>with the existing mess, and one to work on a replacement
> >>that will avoid all such problems.
> >
> > YES! That's [working on the replacement] is what I'm thinking
> > about. At the moment, all of my ideas are busted since I
> > can't seem to fix the little piles of mess I see demonstrated
> > here. If I can't accomplish this by training, another approach
> > has to be made. In one week, I've found two university instructors
> > who are teaching incorrect techniques and portraying opinions
> > as facts of the present and future. The Real Fix is fix what
> > comes out of their mouths which is impossible. The next fix
> > would have been to retrain the project managers who are ignoring
> > security and other issues. Since these people are being burnt in
> > by the opinionated instructors, untraining is impossible.
> >
> > This is the data I've gleaned from this discussion.
>
>Consider the possibility that students don't want to follow
>obsolete relics constantly bemoaning how much better things were
>back it their day. For that they can go to a nursing home, not a
>university.

So, teaching correct techniques and differentiating opinion from fact
is now obsolete. I was afraid of that. 

-- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net

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