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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: urgent help needed!!!
Date: 1997/03/31
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Date: 1997-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
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yus000@unbc.edu asks for help on an assignment.

I really encourage people to do no more than point this student in the
right direction to find the answer for himself. There are two points here.

Always remember that the purpose of assignments is not to solve a problem,
but to LEARN HOW to solve a problem on your own. It is all too easy for
people trying to be helpful to solve students problems for them and 
thus short ciruit the real purpose of the assignment.

Second, there are thousands of students learning Ada. If any appreciable
fraction of them followed yus000's lead, then CLA would be swamped with
beginners looking for other people to do their assignments for them,
and CLA would become useless.