From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <41DEE9B3.4030000@tommyk.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:57:39 -0500 From: Jason Gurtz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] RT fields applications References: <3fa76f8c7c34532ca278d20547bd4bcc@plan9.bell-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <3fa76f8c7c34532ca278d20547bd4bcc@plan9.bell-labs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 29e6af82-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On 1/7/2005 14:25, Sape Mullender wrote: > Why, thank you very much. Glad you liked it. The students > got a kick out of my statement that programming is a craft, not > a science. Just like in other crafts, like cabinet making, you learn > it by watching a master and trying it yourself. So true, all my classmates just don't seem to get it. Wish I could have seen that lecture. It's hard to get good instruction these days; the java folks seem to have taken over at the community college. I'm excited now because I've convinced enough of my peers to sign up for assembler this spring and the class won't get canceled as usual. Cheers, ~Jason --