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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/12/21 2:46 AM, Joukj wrote:
> 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. 

That depends on the University.  Many do not do research.

>                                                         So we have to look 
> farther than the classroom and the books. Also in my "technical" 
> environment I never stumbled on COBOL. 

Not surprising as COBOL is not a "technical" language.  But in
the business world , banking, credit cards, HR, EMR, insurance,
it is rampant, as it should be.

>                                         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".

Well, I "worked" at a University. :-)

bill