An example we had to do for a quick in class activity was writing a program to student names (in a text files) into a list and print out their respective grades (in another text file). With output like this:
Joe 89 Bob 25 Mary 100 I quickly overcame the assignment with: paste names.txt grades.txt My professor responded by saying "you are doing it the wrong way". It's preposterous to not use the tools given to us by unix gods. Calvin On 31 October 2012 13:42, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k...@shike2.com>wrote: > > My 3rd year computer science professor just said: > > "In order to have a good program, it must be large" > > *facepalm* > > This is something very common today. Teachers in the universities > create minds that only can do very difficult things. I has to say that in > my > case was the same, and took long time to me see that this was shit, but > usually people can't understand it because they don't know other thing. > >