And your point is?

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Post #5,718

8/17/01 10:37:25 PM

And your point is?

Even with open source, are you saying would-be programmers won't be any better educated than they are today? (If that's what you're saying, I agree with it.)

You can be better educated (eg, someone teaching from Constantine & Yourdon is going to kill someone teachiing from Smith & Smith), but good programming is often only learned from experience, trial, and error.

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Post #6,045

8/21/01 10:14:42 AM

"Standing on the shoulders of giants"

I'm not saying WindowsXX is great code. But even bad code can teach us ... what not to do. If we can't see the code, we just keep making the same mistakes over and over again. With the code, we can learn what to do, what not to do, and how to spot the difference. If every generation has to re-learn the same lessons, progress slows to a crawl.

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Great article about language/programming theory - (drewk) - (8) - Aug. 16, 2001, 10:48:26 AM EDT

Great article, indeed. Thanks! -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 16, 2001, 07:12:40 PM EDT

Re: Great article about language/programming theory - (wharris2) - (3) - Aug. 17, 2001, 12:28:44 AM EDT

That's not the point I took from it - (drewk) - (2) - Aug. 17, 2001, 09:50:20 AM EDT

And your point is? - (wharris2) - (1) - Aug. 17, 2001, 10:37:25 PM EDT

"Standing on the shoulders of giants" - (drewk) - Aug. 21, 2001, 10:14:42 AM EDT

Thanks - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Aug. 19, 2001, 09:36:40 PM EDT

Nope, that's the first of his I've seen -NT - (drewk) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2001, 10:16:44 AM EDT

Don't worry, found them. - (ben_tilly) - Aug. 21, 2001, 10:47:41 AM EDT

So let me sign off in idiocy...
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