Comments on: The world becomes a little bit safer http://weblog.hypotheticalabs.com/?p=231 Improving the world, hypothetically Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:28:34 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael http://weblog.hypotheticalabs.com/?p=231&cpage=1#comment-1281 Michael Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:33:39 +0000 http://weblog.hypotheticalabs.com/?p=231#comment-1281 The word is apparently that NCSU has been getting better. So they claim. Haven't seen the evidence to back it up -- using Java for graduate level operating systems class or data structures is surely criminal; but training people to enjoy building soul sucking web apps versus thinking for themselves should be a capital offense. It's industry whoring and I'd rather have a few sharp programmers in Rogue Language X than 50 drones. What I've heard lately has definitely kept me from wanting to persue any further education with them. FWIW, MIT was doing Scheme in '97 when NCSU was still doing C++ (C would have been much better, but hey). I went to the meetings protesting the Java changeover. We failed. Anything would be better as that mentality is kind of useless in the field unless you are trying to train java programmers -- I spent about 3 years intentionally unlearning much of what they taught me. Then I said students would not be learning low level design skills, and, guess what, they aren't... worse, they come out with the "there is only one language" mentality and design you know what... I think Scheme is better for Moose migration simulation anyway. The word is apparently that NCSU has been getting better. So they claim. Haven’t seen the evidence to back it up — using Java for graduate level operating systems class or data structures is surely criminal; but training people to enjoy building soul sucking web apps versus thinking for themselves should be a capital offense. It’s industry whoring and I’d rather have a few sharp programmers in Rogue Language X than 50 drones. What I’ve heard lately has definitely kept me from wanting to persue any further education with them.

FWIW, MIT was doing Scheme in ‘97 when NCSU was still doing C++ (C would have been much better, but hey). I went to the meetings protesting the Java changeover. We failed. Anything would be better as that mentality is kind of useless in the field unless you are trying to train java programmers — I spent about 3 years intentionally unlearning much of what they taught me. Then I said students would not be learning low level design skills, and, guess what, they aren’t… worse, they come out with the “there is only one language” mentality and design you know what…

I think Scheme is better for Moose migration simulation anyway.

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