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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,e1e578817780dac2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Craig Franck Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/08/27 Message-ID: <4vtmgu$l00@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176676261 references: <4u7hi6$s2b@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us> <4uo74j$95p@ns.broadvision.com> to: jdege@jdege.visi.com content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: AT&T WorldNet Services mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.os.msdos.programmer x-mailer: Mozilla 1.22ATT (Windows; U; 16bit) Date: 1996-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote: >On 13 Aug 1996 10:44:56 -0700, Darin Johnson wrote: >>Too many people fall asleep in algorithms class >>(then bitch about the waste of time later). > >It's odd how little things can bring back memories. > >Sitting there at nine o'clock at night, because I couldn't fit the >day class into my schedule, listening to Sartaj Sahni drone: > > And in step 27, we set temp.prev.next to temp.next. > >Then watching him erase the arrow connecting bubble C to bubble B, >then watching him draw an array connecting bubble C to bubble A. > > And in step 28, we set temp.next.prev to temp.prev. > >Then watching him erase the arrow connecting bubble A to bubble B, >then watching him draw an array connecting bubble A to bubble C. > > And in step 30, we... > >Has _anyone_ had an instructer who brought any excitement to this stuff, >or is it inherently impossible to teach without becoming dull and tedious? > >-- >Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he >is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not >make messes in the house. > -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love" > Robet Heinlein "Time Enough for Algorithms". It's a story about a liberal arts student who gets his brain transplanted into the body of a famous mathematician. So of course eveyone takes him seriously, and he then goes on to describe the "Worlds Most Important Algorithm". I had a professor who used to say "I am here to teach, not entertain!". Why the two had to become separated is a mystery to me... -- Craig clfranck@worldnet.att.net Manchester, NH "You see all around you people engaged in making others live lives which are not their own, while they themselves care nothing for their own real lives -- men who hate life though they fear death". -- William Morris, "News from Nowhere" (1891)