I wouldn't either. I'm not sure that you can go and get an education anymore.
I recently read that a pretty large proportion of Harvard graduates graduate
with honors becuase of grade inflation. I know that in the public schools,
where an 'A' once was awarded for >93%, a 'B' for 86..92. and so on, and a 70,
which was the lowest 'D' once upon a time (when I was in high school) now is a
solid 'C.'
Back when I was in high school, a score of 800 on one or the other of the
SAT's was a rare event that didn't occur every year in a school system in a
city of half-a-million or so. Nowadays, with the obviously much-lowered
standards, it happens all the time.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: <pat_at_cart-server.purdueriots.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > Friendlier OS' (e.g. Windows) have equivalent tools that are less onerous
in
> > the demands they place on the user. Just ask the typical programmer what
a
> > "regular expression" is. Better yet, give him a task requiring the use of
> > grep for a list of, say, 100 words and phrases. When he complains after
about
> > a week that he's not made much progress, THEN ask him what a regular
> > expression is.
>
> *I* wouldn't call them a programmer if they couldn't figure that out. I'd
> tell them to go back to school and get a *real* education. F*ck, I'm a
> junior in CompE at Purdue and am pretty good at playing with RegExp's.
> Just because a person says they're a programmer doesn't make them one.
> Would you like to have your surgeon tell you 'I don't know exactly how to
> stich you up, so I'm going to have my mother sew you up'? A programmer
> that doesn't understand simple concepts like RegExp's shouldn't be trying
> to program. Period.
>
> -- Pat
>
>
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 02:40:17 BST