Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: literacy? Message-ID: <1093@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:56:04 EST Article-I.D.: opus.1093 Posted: Wed Feb 13 02:56:04 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 03:17:28 EST References: <476@tesla.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 13 In regard to comments a while back about teaching this'n'that about computers vs. other skills, I thought folks might enjoy this excerpt, found in net.lang.c. I had to re-read it several times before I could get past the parse and try to find some meaning: > > Yeah! The last CS cource I took, where the grader (who didn't > understand "C" to save her life) chocked of about 25% of style grade > because she liked little idiosynchronisities like correct spelling :-) > in comments and big blocks around comments, et cetera, also left no password > set on her account.... -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Cerebus for dictator!