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From: Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ada student homework ?
Date: 2000/11/09
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This looked so ridiculously simple a task that I began to wonder if maybe
someone out there isn't just jerking our collective chain. Some version of
"Lets see if I can start the customary homework chastisement thread..."

OTOH, here in Palm Beach County, we seem to have a large number of people
who are TOO STUPID to figure out how to punch a ballot - or even ask for
help. So maybe the same people take programming classes and are TOO STUPID
to open the textbook which undoubtedly has at least one example of an "if"
statement in it somewhere. I'll bet there is even an index entry in the
back of the book that would take you right to the page. Maybe even a Table
Of Contents entry. Maybe even an example of a "Swap" program? That *is* a
rather popular example to put in textbooks, isn't it?

Or have they dropped the requirement that you be able to read in order to
get into college? It is rather "exclusive" and not very "diverse" to
require literacy, isn't it?

(Maybe I should attach a smiley here somewhere - but I'm not sure that I'm
joking. :-)

MDC

Ted Dennison wrote:

> I don't think so. If I can be brutally honest here, anyone who has that
> much trouble figuring out how an "if" statement works will *never* be a
> programmer, Ada or otherwise.
>

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