From: nasser@apldbio.com
Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada
Date: 1996/11/04
Date: 1996-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55lhja$duo@lex.zippo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32780744.2F79@wsii.com
In article <32780744.2F79@wsii.com>, "Arlene says...
>
>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.
>
Why would you think that a CS instructor would necessarily know
how to write good software? most CS teachers/profs/instructors
have little real life software experience.
Nasser
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-09 0:00 What is Ada used for??? Sean Roehnelt
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Jason Smith
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Richard Riehle
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Stanley R. Allen
1996-10-24 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Andrew Dunstan
1996-10-25 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-28 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Rush Kester
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Kazimir Majorinc
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-10 0:00 ` What is Ada used for??? Robert S. White
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <AE817A13-1E0BE@206.107.67.30>
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Jin Xue Kuang
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Arlene S. Felton
1996-11-04 0:00 ` nasser [this message]
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