Re: Heaps and Foreigners

From: Ari Johnson (ari_j_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 00:47:29 -0700

Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> This is what bugs me about all this stuff. Duane seems to be
> proposing fixes for incompetence. The only fix for incompetence that
> works is a bullet in the head.

Are you suggesting that dying makes one competent? ;-D

This reminds me of an idea I had in college - evolutionary programming.
  What I wanted to do was have a team of upperclassment in the CS
department go through the computer labs when freshmen were working on
programming projects, and read their code over their shoulders, watching
not only how they code but how they go about coding. We'd carry 2x4's,
and hit students in the head for making mistakes. The idea is that
they'd learn how to program well out of fear.

Sadly, I was the only one there who was willing to take action on his
politically incorrect ideas, and I didn't like the idea of having a cell
to myself, so I passed on the idea, and incompetent programmers still go
through college without a severe beating.

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