Hi Al and all, In my line of work (steel industry) it's a bit more harsh:
If you don't solve the first problem, you won't be given another problem to solve. To find a method is one thing, to get the correct result is another one. One problem to solve, twenty possible solutions, and then sort the best one out of those ... Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens al davis Verzonden: woensdag 7 maart 2007 5:34 Aan: geda-user@moria.seul.org Onderwerp: Re: gEDA-user: Why use gEDA? [OT] On Tuesday 06 March 2007 22:45, Marc Moreau wrote: > *cough* vim *ahem* > > Sorry.. Couldn't resist. > > /me dawns the flame suit Regardless of preference, at some time everyone will be confronted with something else. Whether you like it or not, it is important to be able to cope with it. I have yet to meet anyone skilled at unix that cannot cope with MS-windows when the need arises. When I see a school that is all-MS, and graduates that know only MS ... I assume they cannot cope with anything else. Usually that assumption is true. I assume such narrowness prevails in all that they do. I would go even farther on this ... Even if stuck with windoze .. sometimes you still need to work with text files. The unix hack digs in and solves the problem. The windows user says "I can't" and they call in someone else to solve the problem. When I am interviewing job applicants, this is the kind of thing I look for. As a teacher, try to emphasize this, even in the tests. The highest grades go to those who can dig in and solve strange problems. I don't care about memorizing formulas. I have gotten both praise and complaints for this policy. A couple years ago, despite pressure from other faculty, I used gnucap in class, with mixed results. Within a year later, two of the students came back (separately, without knowledge of each other) to tell me how much it helped them in a job interview. I have seen things like this over and over. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user