-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-


 WC> I made tremendous progress in weeks three and four into the
 WC> C programming course. Was calling external files from
 WC> functions, retrieving data, modifying external files,
 WC> employing multidimensional arrays, ect. Pretty cool stuff
 WC> but all I've got on disk is the first lousy simplistic
 WC> couple of weeks of stuff :-( Damned administrator
 WC> reconfigured the network so we couldn't access the A drive
 WC> to save files or work at home making me wonder why all us
 WC> students had blown around three grand on computers
 WC> $YU%UY&$!!{at}!

 CA> Many who agreed to teach programming were actually computer
 CA> systems retailers developing a market for themselves. The
 CA> programming success or failure was of no real consequence to
 CA> them.

George was actually a very smart business investment
broker and no programmer at all.
"Abilities" had, just my luck, decided to switch from
real programming to Windows GUI BS for secretarial
tasks when I got aboard so the program just disintegrated 
under me. Bob Sullivan and Wendy Perry as well as Ron
the real programming instructors left after my first couple 
months. Ron was the C and *nix, SCO, guru and I
was a VERY fast study under his, unfortunately very brief
time there.
George picked up programming pretty fast but it's not
cool having an instructor a chapter ahead of you and sometimes
claiming "you can't do it that way" when that's precisely
how it's spelled out in the same book we're all using.
I mean I once pissed George off when he and I argued over DOS
when he maintained  "cd" in DOS wouldn't perform the same 
function as Linux "pwd"in Linux, discouraging :-(
George of course was quite wrong.
 
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