21 Apr
2002
21 Apr
'02
7:40 p.m.
I wouldn't either. I'm not sure that you can go and get an education anymore.
I recently read that a pretty large proportion of Harvard graduates graduate
with honors becuase of grade inflation. I know that in the public schools,
where an 'A' once was awarded for >93%, a 'B' for 86..92. and so on,
and a 70,
which was the lowest 'D' once upon a time (when I was in high school) now is a
solid 'C.'
Back when I was in high school, a score of 800 on one or the other of the
SAT's was a rare event that didn't occur every year in a school system in a
city of half-a-million or so. Nowadays, with the obviously much-lowered
standards, it happens all the time.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: <pat(a)cart-server.purdueriots.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> Friendlier OS' (e.g. Windows) have equivalent tools that are less onerous
in
> the demands they place on the user. Just ask the
typical programmer what
a
> "regular expression" is. Better yet,
give him a task requiring the use of
> grep for a list of, say, 100 words and phrases. When he complains after
about
a week that
he's not made much progress, THEN ask him what a regular
expression is.
*I* wouldn't call them a programmer if they couldn't figure that out. I'd
tell them to go back to school and get a *real* education. F*ck, I'm a
junior in CompE at Purdue and am pretty good at playing with RegExp's.
Just because a person says they're a programmer doesn't make them one.
Would you like to have your surgeon tell you 'I don't know exactly how to
stich you up, so I'm going to have my mother sew you up'? A programmer
that doesn't understand simple concepts like RegExp's shouldn't be trying
to program. Period.
-- Pat