If you follow the link on this page to Dr. Rannie's home page, you can see that his other interests are primitive fire building. Coincidence? :-)
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > While searching for CCW command codes (x'08' actually) I ran across this > page of a computer science professor at Northern Illinois University. It > seems they are learning some serious mainframe. > http://www.cs.niu.edu/~rrannie/homepagA.html<http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Errannie/homepagA.html> > > > My favorite bit is from the CS-468 course syllabus. > http://www.cs.niu.edu/~rrannie/syl468S7.html<http://www.cs.niu.edu/%7Errannie/syl468S7.html> > > "In this course programming will be carried out under a number of rules > that, if you have not already discerned them, are those used in the 'real > world' and which you may be assured you will encounter shortly after > graduation. One of those rules is that a program which does NOT DO WHAT IT > IS SUPPOSED TO DO -- REGARDLESS of how long or how hard or how much you > 'sweat blood over it', is still, just, and only, a pile of chicken > scratchings. It is NOT 50% or 10% or ANY percent a program! IT IS AN > UN-PROGRAM! > > "AFTER you graduate you won't get paid by an employer for a program that > doesn't work and BEFORE you graduate you won't get a grade in this course > for a program that doesn't work. Don't ever forget that folks won't pay for > parachutes that 'almost' work!" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
