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

[Joukj]

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.
> 
> 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.
> 
At a university we do not only teach but also do research. Many of those 
research projects are in collaboration with industry. So we have to look 
farther than the classroom and the books. Also in my "technical" 
environment I never stumbled on COBOL. What we see is that companies use 
a lot of Python (since they think Matlab is too expensive). That is the 
reason our university teaches Python in the first year (and not Matlab, 
which we could get cheap,as we did a few years ago).

But still I think also work at the university is a "real job".

               regards
                   Jouk