"Ian"  wrote in message
news:1108039388.435546.128540{at}g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>A keen observation, the contract I was in before I was married, the
> director and his second (whom I shall call PJ,) couldn't manage a
> school playgorund, let alone a load of kids who'd learned visual basic
> in their bedroom, in between sessions on the charlie and Grand theft
> Auto.

An almost poetic observation! *lol*


>
> It's long been my opinion that in order to get a degree, computer
> software students should have to write the bus controller software for
> an aeroplane. Forget drivers for Quadrupole Mass Spectrometers (which
> was my final year project) it's bus controller or bust.
>
> They get their degree presented to them on the other side of the
> atlantic to the place where they live, having to fly there using the
> bus controller software they've just written, in order to collect it.
> This would sharpen up the mind a bit, and introduce just a touch more
> importance to reliability.
>
> We certainly wouldn't have any wank languages like Straustrup's "It's
> harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow your
> whole leg off" wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky
> wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky
> wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky wanky
> wanky wanky c++.
>
> Let's have an object model, then destroy it with our friends.
>
*lol* - c++ = Learning 'oop' the wiggly waggly way - then you just get lost!
Eifel towers above it!

Phil




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