Re: Scoping rules
- From: "Snis Pilbor" <snispilbor@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Oct 2006 22:06:52 -0700
Chad wrote:
(snip)
I see. Going off topic....I've been coming and going from this forum
for the past couple of years. It will never cease to amaze me what I
learn here (good or bad). Between the reading, the late night computer
hacking sessions, and asking questions on these forums, I almost want
to give up my awesome $12.50/hr stocking job and go to school for
computer science.
In my experience, comp.lang.c is leagues better than the typical
computer science dept. It's sort of tragic, but except possibly at
rare/ivy league schools, computer science departments have one purpose
these days: to mass produce javamonkies to do business software.
While comp.lang.c discusses subtle, beautiful issues which often make
me literally grin with amusement, a typical university undergraduate
comp sci class will drive any rational man to suicidal depression. The
theory courses are a bit better, but there they still go too slow. A
4th year course on computability theory should NOT spend a lecture
reviewing basic induction!
No, my friend, what you could do is give up your awesome $12.50/hr
stocking job and go to school for mathematics with an emphasis in
theoretical computer science. Study higher logic, algorithms,
computability theory, language theory, graph theory, coding theory,
combinatorics, artificial intelligence, quantum computers, DNA
computers, etc. in class-- study specific languages on your own/on
usenet. Afterall, do you really need a whole bloody semester to learn
"Java = syntax of C except 80% of the features are crippled and it runs
slower than an abacus"?
.
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