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One of the many, many lies I was told at primary school: "You need to learn to use a fountain pen, because you have to use one at secondary school". Nobody used
by jdietrich 8y ago
One of the many, many lies I was told at primary school: "You need to learn to use a fountain pen, because you have to use one at secondary school". Nobody used a fountain pen at secondary school.
- JohnBooty 8y agoSimilar to the lie I heard about computers from one particular teacher in high school: "You can't use a mouse, because nobody uses a mouse in the real world!" This was in 1994 and it hadn't been true for quite some time! (In her defense, WordPerfect 5.1 was a heck of a lot more productive with keyboard shortcuts, especially if you had the little "cheat sheet" to place atop the function key row on your keyboard, and of course developers and other engineers know the benefits of minimizing the need to remove one's hands from the keyboard as well)
- komali2 8y agoSomeone told my friend that they would be forced to use VIM at work as an IT requirement, at university in 2015. Even if he was only using remote terminals I can't see how this is a sane thing to say to a class of students.
- jdietrich 8y agoHe's infinitely more likely to be forced to use some kind of Eclipse-based monstrosity.
- JohnBooty 8y agoThat's hilarious. Knowing how to us vi(m) is a valuable skill (and one I lack sadly) but you only really neeeeeeed to know if if your IT role involves working on random remote systems. As a software developer that has never been an issue for me. I can think of only one or two times in my whole life I was working on some random server and didn't have pico/nano available. And even then I think I was just able to use sftp to edit it with my local editor of choice.
- chrisseaton 8y agoIn my first proper job I did actually have to use a fountain pen to write or sign letters - other pens weren’t allowed.