30 May
2000
30 May
'00
3:21 a.m.
"R. D. Davis" wrote:
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Wayne M. Smith wrote:
[> Sellem (sp?) wrote:]
Have you never heard of learning from games? :-) I learned a lot about
DCL by writing a game of adventure in it that doubled as a command
line interpreter, and didn't a certain classic book on UNIX mention
the importance of learning by playing?
Different strokes for different folks; what do we learn with a flame war?
The games I am talking about are better described in "Games People Play",
don't remember the author.
It would be interesting though to see if there is any correlation between
competitiveness and computer technical people (programmers, hardware, etc.)
Of course, in today's world
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, Marvin wrote:
> What
makes you think a flame war is an effective
way to learn? A game
> > perhaps, but learning??? where children are supposed to be overstressed little
adults and not
While that is off topic, I couldn't agree more with your sentiments!