Re: Any research putting c above ada?

[fwf27775@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Fritz W Feuerbacher)]

Roy Grimm (ragrimm@cca.rockwell.com) wrote:

: > However, over the years I've had the chance to talk to a few graduates from
: > other computer science programs and was surprised at the diversity of
: > experiences. One student complained that his whole undergraduate career was
: > ``all theory'' geared toward further studies. He never got to do any projects
: > involving real implementation.  He claimed to have gained next to no
: > experience with things like networking, graphical interfaces or concurrent
: > programming. I was shocked when he revealed to me that he allegedly studied
: > at MIT!

This is because there is no need to teach people these things.  If comp
sci departments wanted to teach people these types of subjects then they
wouldn't be a comp sci department.  These types of things change from week
to week and there would be no way of keeping up with them.  Comp. Sci
study involves mostly the theories that don't change over time.  Thier
like concrete mathematic examples.

If you want to pursue other avenues of computers such as networks and
GUI's and such go right ahead but no matter how much those areas change
and evolve the core comp. sci. material will still be there existing like 
concrete pillars.

: I am suprised that there are so few institutions out there which really
: prep students for real world software development.  I graduated with
: people who could recite operating system theory all day but couldn't
: figure out how to change working directories in their VMS accounts
: without a cheat sheet.

Thats because it takes about 5 minutes to memorize an os implmentation
dependent command and about 2 years to gain a good understanding of
computer science (with lots of hard work).  Comp. sci. is not to concerned
with specific implementations although it uses them to illiustrate
examples.