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Reminds me of my time in school in the early '90s. I was working for the university's Unix Admin group and as the only student in the group, I got sent on all t
by technothrasher 7y ago
Reminds me of my time in school in the early '90s. I was working for the university's Unix Admin group and as the only student in the group, I got sent on all the "broken workstation" house calls. The professors who almost uniformly had no idea how to use their computers were the ones in the computer science department.
They weren't stupid people, I had CS classes with many of them and they were brilliant. They just didn't care one bit about using computers. They were 100% into theory.
- toolslive 7y agoThere is this anecdote about C.A.R. Hoare: He never implemented quicksort. He also was never logged into the systems at the university where he resided. [They also wanted to name a building after him (The Hoare-house) but for an unknown reason changed opinion. ;) But that's another story]