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echo: public_domain
to: Rod Speed
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1993-12-29 08:49:08
subject: return codes + header

PE>> How come neither event-driven, nor client-server, is taught as a
 PE>> philosophy that should be adhered to at the Uni I go to?

 PE>> Has a whole discipline sprung up without anybody bothering to document
 PE>> it?  It sure seems that way!

 RS> Yeah, its a problem which pervades a fast moving immature technological
 RS> field. For example with Windows about all there was for a long time was
 RS> the SDK and Petzolds book. Thats life in an immature field. It can take
 RS> a decade before you start to see the academics pick up on it. Compilers
 RS> and OSs happened like that too, took a long time before you saw them
 RS> adequately covered by the academics, long after the industry had been
 RS> doing it.

Well it's certainly important enough to go into "Everything there is
to know about computers", and there's still 4 pages left to be written
in the 10 page document.  Do you want to update it?  Also, any authorative
references too. BFN.

Paul

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