From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP
Subject: Re: Thoughts provoked by Ed Berard's articles
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 22:45:32 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Tue May 19 22:45:32 1987
Message-ID: <3930013@nucsrl.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8705181900.AA13998@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
/ nucsrl:comp.lang.ada / CONTR47@NOSC-TECR.ARPA / 11:33 am May 18, 1987 /
> [...] I have a placard that says "Never try to teach a pig to sing: It will
> waste your time and it annoys the pig." I believe that Ed is attempting
> to teach pigs to sing as I have often done. [...] It takes 14 or so years
> for a new technology to be widely used in practice [...] and I think it will
> be so for modern software engineering/Ada and there isn't much Ed or I can
> do about it.
> [...]
> So Ed, my reaction to your discourse is to not criticize anyone for not
> immedialtely seeing the advantages of Ada, work with the ones who ask for
> help. The 14 years will pas quickly and you'll be working on the next tnew
> technology by then.
> regards, sam harbaugh
Oh, how wise that sounds... I wish I could follow that advice. I'm afraid I
can't, though. What advice do you have for us poor folks in the education
arena, whose job is to teach the new technology to students, but who end up
spending a lot of time and energy just trying to convince our colleagues that
there even IS a problem with the old technology?
Jacob Gore
Northwestern University, Computer Science Research Lab
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gore@EECS.NWU.Edu (for now, only from ARPA)
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