From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,33e793a459e66944 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Arlene S. Felton" Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada Date: 1996/10/30 Message-ID: <32780744.2F79@wsii.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193686085 references: content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; U) Date: 1996-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jon S Anthony wrote: > ...snip... > > Not a "pedagogue" but, it is just this sort of thing that gives > academic "CS" such a poor image to various people. How can two so > called "professors" be so clueless about their chosen field of > expertise????? It makes them (and by association...) look like > incompetent fools. Well, if the shoe fits... > > /Jon > -- > Jon Anthony > Organon Motives, Inc. > Belmont, MA 02178 > 617.484.3383 > jsa@organon.com I just have to tell this story. I was taking a course for my masters, and the professor expected us to use C for the homework (I do Ada). He had expected us to write a _library_ routine that 1) depended on the _main_ program to include string.h, 2) printed a message if an error occurred, and 3) would exit the program after printing the error message. Am I crazy? Would anyone ever use such a library routine? I tried to say I'd have the routine return a status, and if there were an error, I'd handle any output myself from the main program, and I'd decide when or if the program should exit. I later heard him complaining to other professors in the department that we didn't even know how to write a library routine. I was not impressed. arlene -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Arlene S. Felton NEW --> akeakama@wsii.com <-- NEW! "If there's nothing wrong with me... maybe there's something wrong with the universe!" Dr. Crusher (Remember Me) ------------------------------------------------------------