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In article <beatty.703265905@COSMOS.VLSI.CS.CMU.EDU> beatty+@cs.cmu.edu (Derek Beatty) writes:
>programmers, and 2) programmers will write programmer-productivity
>tools, on whatever platform they're using.  Thus, the decision that
>the Andrew project made, namely, to use workstations (for programmer
>productivity), was wrong.  During the question period after the talk,
>one CS professor concurred, pointing out that his experience teaching
>an introductory course using Andrew was that the students who wrote
>code on their PC's did substantially better work than those students
>who used Andrew.

	well i'm probably over my head, but most students have a PC at
home and are probably more familiar with that environment than the
workstations and Andrew.

	i for one would be much more productive and get better marks
using my NeXT than using a PC, and that is because i have become familiar
with the NeXT environment. now if you gave me a workstation with Andrew
and told me i was to do all my work for the semester using that workstation
and Andrew i guess i would be less productive until i learned how to use
them well. it would probably take more than a semester to master the
new environment.

	i hate it when i take a course and i have to learn a new piece of
software just for that course because:
	1) depending on the software it could be a few weeks of experimenting
           to feel comfortable with it
	2) i don't have the time to learn all the tricks to make me really
           productive during the semester
	3) i will probably never have to use that software again.

just a few thoughts,
stef