Re: if statements

[tmoran@acm.org]

>Sure. Aren't there half-semester 'intense' programming classes? Or schools
>that don't run on the American semester system? Anyway, even if he isn't
>an active student, it still isn't going to help him trying to learn
>programming via cla.
  If it's an 8-hour/day intense programming class, it should be past "if"
statements by the time he gets home and uses the Internet.  In any case,
c.l.a. is going to be much too slow a source of answers.  Certainly
there exist other time schedules than Sept-Dec semesters, but I'd be
surprised to hear of any that start at the beginning of November.  The
"American semester system" is not a totally random set of times like the
date of someone's birthday or something.  If he isn't taking a class, but
is trying to learn by himself, and can't see the answer from his
available texts, and can't get answers from c.l.a., then just how is he
supposed to find such answers?  If he's an RPG programmer trying to
expand his repertoire, perhaps he'll find a different language than Ada
where c.l.x. is more helpful.  If he is in fact taking a (slow) class
and someone answered a homework question on "if" statements, how
serious is the damage that would be done to others than himself?
  Perhaps I'm just hopelessly naive in imagining innocence until
proven guilty.