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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, norman@oclsc.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday Morris worm
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:35:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201911130735.xAD7ZQD6014497@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1573592179.5935.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>

Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:

> I am very disappointed that programming education seems not to care
> enough about this sort of thing, even today.

I think this is the key. Universities focus (too much?) on the theory
and not enough on the practice, and "learn how to program" courses
and books focus on the mechanics (syntax, semantics) and not enough
(or at all) on the practicum of writing code well.

We continue to rely on the school of hard knocks, and we continue
to pay for this reliance.

I also think there's a sliding scale. The fancier or higher-end
the university, the more the focus on theory, and vice versa. Sigh.

Arnold


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-13  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-12 20:56 Norman Wilson
2019-11-12 22:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 22:10 ` [TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: " Bakul Shah
2019-11-12 22:14   ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-12 22:41     ` Robert Clausecker
2019-11-12 22:49       ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-12 23:45       ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-13  0:38         ` Warren Toomey
2019-11-13  1:09         ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-13  0:24       ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-12 22:54   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 23:22     ` Warner Losh
2019-11-12 23:27       ` Arthur Krewat
     [not found]     ` <alpine.DEB.2.20.1911191443530.10845@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2019-11-21 20:02       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-21 20:38         ` Warner Losh
2019-11-21 21:04           ` Clem Cole
2019-11-21 22:06           ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-21 21:48         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-11-13  7:35 ` arnold [this message]
2019-11-13 18:02   ` [TUHS] Happy birthday Morris worm [ really programming education ] Jon Steinhart
2019-11-13 18:49     ` Tyler Adams
2019-11-13 19:15     ` [TUHS] #defines and enums ron
2019-11-13 21:11       ` Warner Losh
2019-11-13 21:22     ` [TUHS] Happy birthday Morris worm [ really programming education ] Chet Ramey
2019-11-15 22:49     ` Adam Thornton
2019-11-15 23:59       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-11-15 14:31 [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris worm Doug McIlroy
2019-11-15 14:39 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-13 13:47 [TUHS] Happy birthday " Doug McIlroy
2019-11-12 22:24 Norman Wilson
     [not found] <mailman.3.1572832803.30037.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2019-11-04 18:10 ` Paul McJones
2019-11-04 18:57   ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-04 19:24     ` Richard Salz
2019-11-05  3:48       ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-11-05 16:04         ` Ronald Natalie
2019-11-06 10:37           ` arnold
2019-11-06 13:35             ` Ronald Natalie
2019-11-04 19:25     ` SPC
2019-11-04 20:27     ` Dan Cross
2019-11-04 22:10       ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-05  0:25     ` Anthony Martin
2019-11-02 14:12 Doug McIlroy
2019-11-02 20:12 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-03 17:12   ` Paul Winalski

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