From: peter.schuller@infidyne.com (Peter Schuller)
Subject: Re: [OT] Software Engineering at 14 (was: Re: Beginner's Language?)
Date: 14 May 2001 06:30:16 GMT
Date: 2001-05-14T06:30:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dnu1o$inn$1@hecate.umd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9dnnnf$idk$1@hecate.umd.edu
>>That's a strawman. One should have received a broad, extensive
>>education before becoming a Ph.D. candidate.
And btw, that's a matter of definition. One that should be changed. What's
important is what you *know*, not what you've studied. A CS Ph.D isn't
likely to remember details tought in history or social science (unless the
person in question is particularly interested in the subject); likewise a
History Ph.D isn't likely to be able to explain the difference between
automatic and dynamic memory allocation in C, or what a "class" is in the
context of object oriented programming.
However, a CS major is expected to be aware of the second world war, and a
history major is expected to know what a computer is. But that's a different
matter - one that does not require anyone to study computer or World War II
in extreme detail.
(I happen to be interested in WWII, so in my case I wouldn't mind studying
it in detail, but any other example will do just fine aswell. I'm not
interested in Swedish kings for example.)
--
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2001-05-04 16:12 Beginner's Language? Faisal Halim
2001-05-04 16:29 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-04 17:14 ` chris.danx
2001-05-04 22:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-05 1:51 ` raj
2001-05-05 14:51 ` Carl E Gundel
2001-05-05 18:12 ` Dodger
2001-05-05 19:06 ` Jochen Schmidt
2001-05-05 22:59 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2001-05-05 23:38 ` Jochen Schmidt
2001-05-08 16:01 ` John English
2001-05-08 18:37 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-05-09 11:31 ` John English
2001-05-09 14:33 ` Ehud Lamm
2001-05-09 16:40 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-06 2:19 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-18 23:02 ` glauber
2001-05-05 20:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-06 1:50 ` raj
2001-05-06 2:09 ` raj
2001-05-06 2:09 ` raj
2001-05-06 15:49 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2001-05-06 22:37 ` Multiparadigm Languages : (was Beginners Language) raj
2001-05-06 22:50 ` Beginner's Language? raj
2001-05-06 23:13 ` Multiparadigm Languages : (was Beginners Language) raj
2001-05-05 19:49 ` Beginner's Language? Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-05 22:52 ` Reinout Heeck
2001-05-06 0:03 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-05-06 1:47 ` Reinout Heeck
2001-05-06 3:38 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-05-06 4:05 ` Reinout Heeck
2001-05-06 10:49 ` SV: " Dan Andersson
2001-05-06 11:42 ` Reinout Heeck
2001-05-06 13:31 ` SV: " Dan Andersson
2001-05-06 20:17 ` Dave Harris
2001-05-07 10:41 ` Biep @ http://www.biep.org
2001-05-07 10:57 ` Andrew Cooke
2001-05-09 10:22 ` Biep @ http://www.biep.org/
2001-05-10 5:45 ` Raffael Cavallaro
2001-05-10 9:02 ` Jochen Schmidt
2001-05-07 14:24 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-07 15:45 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2001-05-09 7:19 ` Espen Vestre
2001-05-09 13:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-09 14:18 ` Ola Rinta-Koski
2001-05-09 15:53 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-10 17:15 ` David Gillon
2001-05-10 19:50 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-05-10 20:15 ` Marie-No�lle Baechler
2001-05-11 5:29 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2001-05-27 12:59 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2001-05-27 22:34 ` Larry Elmore
2001-06-03 21:18 ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-05-09 14:53 ` Biep @ http://www.biep.org/
2001-05-09 15:39 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2001-05-09 18:24 ` Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-09 23:01 ` Sashank Varma
2001-05-10 0:01 ` David Starner
2001-05-10 6:10 ` Mark VandeWettering
2001-05-10 8:08 ` FM
2001-05-10 15:07 ` Eugene Zaikonnikov
2001-05-10 20:08 ` David Thornley
2001-05-16 18:00 ` Robert Posey
2001-05-16 18:19 ` stephan
2001-05-21 4:15 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-05-21 11:53 ` raj
2001-05-23 10:33 ` Liam Devlin
2001-05-21 21:30 ` Marie-No�lle Baechler
2001-05-27 12:59 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2001-05-30 20:26 ` Florian Weimer
2001-05-30 21:56 ` Johan Kullstam
2001-05-31 9:01 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-05-31 13:29 ` Raymond Toy
2001-05-31 13:51 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-05-16 20:44 ` brlewis
2001-05-21 5:09 ` vsync
2001-05-10 6:06 ` Mark VandeWettering
2001-05-10 7:57 ` Andrew Bromage
2001-05-10 8:55 ` Iain McNaughton
2001-05-15 2:02 ` Rob Warnock
2001-05-15 11:56 ` Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-15 17:14 ` FM
2001-05-15 18:08 ` Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-15 20:37 ` FM
2001-05-16 17:56 ` Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-17 3:06 ` FM
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2001-06-05 13:03 ` Biep @ http://www.biep.org/
2001-05-10 13:03 ` John English
2001-05-10 13:44 ` Michael Livshin
2001-05-16 17:59 ` Lex Spoon
2001-05-22 14:16 ` John English
2001-05-22 16:40 ` Poetry in source code (was: Beginner's Language?) Ted Dennison
2001-05-23 15:24 ` John English
2001-05-23 17:34 ` Preben Randhol
2001-05-22 23:31 ` Beginner's Language? raj
2001-05-23 0:44 ` Chad R. Meiners
2001-05-28 0:17 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-05-28 19:39 ` poetry in PL's? (was: Beginner's Language?) Lex Spoon
2001-05-29 13:44 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-30 20:34 ` Beginner's Language? Florian Weimer
2001-05-10 7:28 ` FM
2001-05-10 8:51 ` Jochen Schmidt
2001-05-10 21:32 ` FM
2001-05-11 0:26 ` James Rogers
2001-05-12 2:56 ` FM
2001-05-12 17:06 ` FM
2001-05-11 15:55 ` Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-11 23:50 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 (was: Re: Beginner's Language?) FM
2001-05-12 11:59 ` raj
2001-05-12 14:17 ` Andrew Cooke
2001-05-12 17:09 ` FM
2001-05-12 14:40 ` Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-13 1:44 ` raj
2001-05-13 8:28 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 Markus Mottl
2001-05-13 10:41 ` Mark Wotton
2001-05-13 12:04 ` Markus Mottl
2001-05-13 12:48 ` Mark Wotton
2001-05-13 13:05 ` Daniel C. Wang
2001-05-13 22:09 ` FM
2001-05-13 23:44 ` Markus Mottl
2001-05-12 19:23 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 (was: Re: Beginner's Language?) Marco Antoniotti
2001-05-12 22:38 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 Markus Mottl
2001-05-13 2:48 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 (was: Re: Beginner's Language?) Jorn W Janneck
2001-05-13 3:00 ` raj
2001-05-13 8:59 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 Markus Mottl
2001-05-13 11:38 ` Karel Thönissen
2001-05-13 12:46 ` Markus Mottl
2001-05-13 14:29 ` Karel Thönissen
2001-05-13 9:44 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 (was: Re: Beginner's Language?) Andrew Bromage
2001-05-14 7:21 ` Jorn W Janneck
2001-05-15 22:53 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 Reini Urban
2001-05-15 23:24 ` FM
2001-05-12 14:33 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 (was: Re: Beginner's Language?) Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-12 20:37 ` FM
2001-05-12 21:56 ` Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-12 23:50 ` FM
2001-05-13 8:02 ` Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-13 20:55 ` FM
2001-05-14 9:27 ` Biep @ http://www.biep.org/
2001-05-13 8:29 ` thi
2001-05-12 17:20 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 Markus Mottl
2001-05-13 20:15 ` [OT] Software Engineering at 14 (was: Re: Beginner's Language?) Peter Schuller
2001-05-13 21:54 ` FM
2001-05-14 4:42 ` Peter Schuller
2001-05-14 6:21 ` FM
2001-05-14 18:37 ` Peter Schuller
2001-05-14 21:18 ` FM
2001-05-14 22:45 ` Peter Schuller
2001-05-15 7:49 ` David Rush
2001-05-15 19:29 ` Peter Schuller
2001-05-17 15:21 ` David Rush
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2001-05-15 9:19 ` Beginner's Language? Siegfried Gonzi
2001-05-15 9:47 ` Preben Randhol
2001-05-15 12:06 ` Andreas Krennmair
2001-05-10 8:11 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2001-05-10 11:09 ` Markus Mottl
2001-05-10 14:44 ` Eugene Zaikonnikov
2001-05-10 15:34 ` ssthapa
2001-05-14 19:58 ` Johan Kullstam
2001-05-14 20:14 ` Matthias Blume
2001-05-16 16:16 ` J�rgen Exner
2001-05-16 20:49 ` Matthias Blume
2001-05-17 0:22 ` Boris Smilga
2001-05-17 1:29 ` a
2001-05-17 3:07 ` FM
2001-05-17 13:56 ` Matthias Blume
2001-05-17 17:54 ` J�rgen Exner
2001-05-09 22:56 ` David Thornley
2001-05-10 9:16 ` Ola Rinta-Koski
2001-05-10 20:17 ` David Thornley
2001-05-10 5:53 ` Mark VandeWettering
2001-05-10 9:22 ` Francis Leboutte
2001-05-10 15:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-05-10 16:49 ` Jochen Schmidt
2001-05-10 17:04 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2001-05-11 7:34 ` Ola Rinta-Koski
2001-05-11 14:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-05-10 15:17 ` brlewis
2001-05-08 0:15 ` Dodger
2001-05-16 16:55 ` Lex Spoon
2001-05-16 17:42 ` Markus Kliegl
2001-05-19 14:24 ` Lex Spoon
2001-05-08 7:11 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-08 7:23 ` ronald schroder
2001-05-16 17:53 ` Lex Spoon
2001-05-17 0:54 ` Tim May
2001-05-17 1:15 ` Gary Scott
2001-05-17 7:20 ` Tom Lake
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2001-05-08 13:38 ` Marin David Condic
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2001-05-09 14:00 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-09 14:36 ` chris.danx
2001-05-09 19:09 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-09 19:06 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-10 6:20 ` Pascal Obry
2001-05-10 15:31 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-10 16:12 ` James Rogers
2001-05-10 16:01 ` Stephen Leake
2001-05-11 1:54 ` Retraction : ( Was: Beginner's Ide) raj
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2001-05-11 21:30 ` Stephen Leake
2001-05-12 17:15 ` Simon Wright
2001-05-09 5:32 ` Beginner's Language? Simon Wright
2001-05-10 21:50 ` Gary Scott
2001-05-11 2:14 ` raj
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2001-05-10 8:06 ` Andrew Cooke
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2001-05-05 6:23 ` Beginner's Language? Gerhard Häring
2001-05-05 9:06 ` David Starner
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2001-05-06 19:15 ` David Starner
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