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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:39:36 +0000 (UTC)
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:52:36 +0000 (UTC), Martin Dowie wrote:
> 
> 
>>... Joe Bloggs, who taught himself (badly) at home ...
> 
> 
> I don't think that he would be the worst possible choice. Look, if somebody
> has a desire to be taught (+5 points), and is ready to do it by himself
> (+20!), at his spare time at home (+100!). That's far above the average. I
> saw much worse cases!

I did say this hypothetical self-taught person taught themselves 
'badly'! :-)

Cheers

-- Martin