"Simen Kjærås" <simen.kja...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:op.wbb24i010gp...@biotronic.lan... > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:20:42 +0100, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: > >> I've spent a total of about 6 years in college, always got A's and B's in >> the CS classes, and yet I'm convinced that programming classes are >> completely and utterly useless. Most of the instructors themselves barely >> even know how to code (among many, many other problems). So if you're >> learning programming at college, then I'm not surprised you've gotten the >> impression that nobody understands templates: Around universities, they >> probably don't. (Also, it doesn't help that C++'s templates could be a >> lot better.) >> >> I even had one CS prof, he said that the only language he knew was C. And >> yet, after seeing his feedback on my code, it became abundantly clear to >> me that he didn't even understand how strings worked (ie: C's famous >> null-terminated strings) *in the ONE language he knew*. > > You seem to be harping on this a lot.
Sorry. I definitely *do* have a big chip on my shoulder on the matter.