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Article #554Re: Non-professional programmers (was: Which language to teach first?)
From: Tom Neff
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1989 00:32
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1989 00:32
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In article <13433@megaron.arizona.edu> gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes: >In article <14577@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >>Koldinger's point is correct, Gudeman's is actually arrogant. >(1) I can't be arrogant since I don't have any faults. The point was arrogant, not the person. I'm sure Gudeman in person is a prince of a fellow; I know the rest of us are. Assertions, not authors, are properly addressed in this newsgroup. I am not sure how clear this distinction would have had to be made in order to avoid Gudeman's above quoted misinterpretation, but I apologize for omitting the needed overkill. ;-) >(2) (3) [ditto] > >I wasn't talking about engineers but Koldinger was - I address both points of view. [ remaining silly flamage omitted - back to the point of the discussion ] The arrogance of the point was its implication that programmers know what elegance is and (e.g.) engineers don't. This ain't so. -- "We walked on the moon -- (( Tom Neff you be polite" )) tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Non-professional programmers (was: Which language to teach first?) Message-ID: <14582@bfmny0.UUCP> Date: 24 Aug 89 00:32:15 GMT References: <13433@megaron.arizona.edu> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Organization: ^ Lines: 25