[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:58:06 -0400, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> On 8/11/21 7:58 AM, Joukj wrote:
>>>
>>> I have always thought the worst professors were those who had never
>>> been anything but students and professors.  Professors who had held
>>> real jobs in their field always seemed better to me.
>>>
>> Why is being a researcher/lecturer at a university not a real job?
>> 
>> 
> Because they have no real understanding about what is involved in
> production IT.  There is nothing worse than a professor saying to a
> classroom full of students: "and this is what you will find when you get
> out in the workplace " when they have never been out in the workplace
> and are totally wrong.

Well, yes and no. We sent nearly all of them on a year in industry after 
year two, before their final year. Real paid job, real experience. And 
they brought that back and informed/corrected their teachers.

> Why do you think they stopped teaching COBOL (and other "legacy"
> languages, but mostly COBOL) claiming it was a dead language with no one
> still using it when there were millions of lines of COBOL in use every
> day by major industries and by two of the largest ISes in the world. 
> Here we are 30 years later and there is still new COBOL being written
> every day.

What we taught was computational thinking and how to program (and otyher 
stuff). Knowing COBOL is just training.




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