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: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@acm.org Subject: Re: if statements Date: 2000/11/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 690077648 References: <8tvbcq$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 973467477 24.20.190.201 (Sun, 05 Nov 2000 15:37:57 PST) Organization: @Home Network NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 15:37:57 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >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.