Hi, Woot! What a great post! And that last bit (quoted below) summarizes it so wonderfully. Is this not the struggle that consumes us all? And yet, I would...
Greetings! I stumbled across this group via Nat's blog, and immediately subscribed. I've blogged on the topic twice myself, and, if any of you take the time...
Greetings, If you've not already read it, Spolsky has a post (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html) up on what the hard problems...
... <sigh> Nothing personal, Mark, but I find these kinds of claims prfoundly dismaying. You see, it's a funny old thing, but back when I was taking exams in ...
What I think Spolsky is arguing is that there is a certain quality of thinking that is necessary for good software development that not everyone has, and that...
having just been there, the perfect venue for the second workshop has to be Las Vegas. It's got a jumble of styles reinterpreting the world and overlaying a...
Hi Keith, No offense taken, Keith. Perhaps I laid it on a bit thick with the hyperbole in my first mail. I confess to being excited that this group exists,...
Yes, but is it a "chicken-and-egg" problem? Meaning, do I need to learn pointers and recursion *before* I'm exposed to postmodernism? Is a thorough grounding...
Bloody hell. Keith != Michael, and I overlooked that in my response. Mea culpa! Someday, maybe, I'll find a way to think faster than I type, rather than vice...
... I think that both recursion and pointers are among the most fundamental concepts in programming and must be understood to be considered a competent...
Ah, OK. That's a pretty big distinction that you make, with that "terminology" change, but having made it, I'm in complete agreement with it. Case closed. ...
... I agree. And I agree with Joel too. When I'm in a sour mood I wonder whether universities should teach Haskell in their intro courses :) But that...
... they used to (or ML or scheme...) but many have dropped it to become not very good training institutions. ... for a while I was running the Abelson and...
... Some do. In my first year at college (Imperial College) we were taught first Miranda, a forerunner to Haskell, and then Modula-2, Prolog and assembly...
... There was definitely a balance that had to be struck. Unknown things weren't a problem. *Unknowable* things were. Things that couldn't be taken apart...
... I suspect that to get better rates it should be a workshop 'under an assumed name.' I've heard that Vegas doesn't like programming conferences.. they...
... Really? What about the gill slits and tails during embryonic development? I thought this was something that Darwin used for support even before Lisp....
... Yeah, that's a bit different from what I had. When I went to college it was Pascal in the introductory courses (which was frustrating because I taught...
... that ... What gill slits would those be? Google for "recapitulation" and "discredited". Don't know about the man himself but some supporters of Darwinism ...
... I can believe it. And if were a hotel's booking manager I'd expect a "post-modern" conference to be populated by self-righteous po-faced left-wing...
... I'm reminded of one of Heinlein's juveniles ("Tunnel in the Sky"). The backstory includes human colonization of extra-Solar planets via some dubious...
I was reading through the scapheap challenge notes last night and it reminded me of something I tried to do about ten years ago.. I was trying to come up with...
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html "The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous...
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