Re: The International standard paper on Ada !!

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com> writes:

| I suspect the 'XXX For Dummies' titles have really come to mean 'XXX For
| Those With No Experience In The Area At All' and is not quite so
| pejorative as it might seem. The 'For Dummies' probably works because it
| makes people feel comfortable with the book, believing that it won't
| contain material so turgid or murky that only a rocket scientist could
| figure it out.

I actually saw a book on crystallisation (it was scientific and
supposedly good) called "Crystallization for beginners". I guess
Crystallization for dummies would be a bad sales trick in the
scientific community at least ;-)
 
| I suppose that everyone has to start out learning programming somewhere,
| but I'd agree that it would be better if people approached it with the
| attitude that it is something which requires good mental capabilities
| and hard work. It shouldn't be viewed as something that anyone can do
| with a week's worth of training.

I agree.

-- 
Preben Randhol     [randhol@pvv.org]    [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] 
 "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team 
  of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, 
  how many of you would disembark immediately?"             -- unknown