[Info-vax] [OT] Teaching, was: Re: Updated HPE/VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 Marketing Brochures

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-30, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm still 'negative' (although I think it's more realistic) as to
> what's facing VMS in the near future. X86 is one thing, security
> another, but right behind that is development and I don't mean faster
> builds, I'm meaning getting those universities and young minds
> interested in developing on OpenVMS, because it's not going to grow
> much without the next base of minds to drag it forward. I have friends
> in achedemic circles and it's no longer about tinkering with code,
> it's about having the tools to build newer and better items and for
> that ideal you need a platform that easily and readily can pull open
> source code and run with it easily. University projects are not much
> about develop this tool or that tool anymore, that stopped years ago,
> there's enough tools to do just about any job now. It's all about
> bundling items to enable higher order functionality and develop
> frameworks and platforms that the education sector is teaching the
> next round of people to perform.

If teaching today is only about assembling existing bricks into higher
level structures and not about making the bricks themselves, then who
teaches the people needed to design and build the next generation
of bricks ?

Simon.

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