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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: T Wheeley Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/05/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 241545042 Sender: tw104@york.ac.uk References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu><5l5qhj$l6a@mtinsc05.worldnet.att.net> <5l8j55$8hk@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> Organization: The University of York, UK Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 13 May 1997, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > In article <5l8gf8$2jp@mtinsc05.worldnet.att.net>, > Craig Franck wrote: > > >Yes, but the CS professor is teaching *CS* students, not simple end > >users of software. They were given a tool and they should be able to > >learn how to use it; on their own, no hand holding. Learning to read > > Moreover, a good CS student would ask the question ``Is this electronic hand-in > service idempotent? What are its precise semantics?'' before attempting to > invoke it more than once. Anyone who knew anything about computers would not trust the hand in program and want to see the source code. :p :sb)