From: Ehud Lamm <ehudlamm@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Comments
Date: 1999/10/24
Date: 1999-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7uvbda$h65$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7usvo6$9kq$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de
In article <7usvo6$9kq$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>,
Georg Bauhaus <georg@zorro.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
>
> So, wouldn't it seem advisable to have "Natural Language
> Skills" in the curriculum? At least for non-english speakers
> (like me :-|)? While there is ongoing talk about The
> Globalisation (again), I can see that students are advised
> to learn a foreign language, but are otherwise left alone -
> the plans for their time at universities do not, in general,
> explicitely include slots for other skill that are nevertheless
> considered essential.
>
The students must pass an exam on English as a second language, or pass an
English course. But this just isn't enough.
I am all for language skills. Alas most people lack them - even in their
native tongues.
Most people fial in phrasing questions, so it is natural that student fail in
phrasing answers - even when they know them!
(By the way: i started a thread on this in several groups, under the title
"formulating good questions").
This is whole subject is off topic here. But as often mentioned in other
groups Dijkstra suposedly said that you can tell if someone is a good
programmer by judging their native language skills.
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[not found] <7ttb4a$8mq$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Self-referential types Robert A Duff
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-14 0:00 ` Multiple Inheritance in Ada 95 [was Re: Self-referential types] Tucker Taft
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Self-referential types Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <7u86su$o5v$1@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net>
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <slrn80fl9f.68j.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Comments (was: Self-referential types) Wes Groleau
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Comments Georg Bauhaus
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm [this message]
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Comments Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Comments Jerry van Dijk
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Comments Ted Dennison
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Comments (was: Self-referential types) Wes Groleau
1999-10-23 0:00 ` M.
[not found] ` <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.991021191504.30582K-100000@pluto.mscc.huji. <381477c9.e1388ff3@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Self-referential types Richard D Riehle
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Michel DELARCHE
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
[not found] ` <3802597B.9205AEE8@averstar.com>
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-25 0:00 Comments Wilhelm Spickermann
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1996-11-07 0:00 Comments N.A.Smith
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Comments Hercules Gunter
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Comments ennals
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Comments johnherro
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Comments Dirk Dickmanns
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Comments Richard A. O'Keefe
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