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=0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!)) Date: 1997/11/24 Message-ID: <347A00E5.214E@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 292464970 References: <64fbr2$76k$1@route1.mdrf.france3.fr> <879901314snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <3473B088.3227@dynamite.com.au> <64ve5n$c6m$1@helios.crest.nt.com> <3474C1F0.365A@dynamite.com.au> <6527n9$340@mtinsc05.worldnet.att.net> <34767515.5253@dynamite.com.au> Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Organization: EDS MS Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > That's not my experience. In my classes, I teach what my experience says > is the right thing to teach, I very seldom find students have a good idea > of what they need to learn! When I was in graduate school I knew a junior professor who got stuck teaching a class called "Differential Equations for Engineers". They wanted him to skip the Linear Algebra because "it wasn't relevant". Plus ca change, pus c'est la meme chose! You seem to have gotten a better grade of students in your classes. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org