Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Jun 06, 2003: > I have a feeling that schools are a very important goal - see how Mac's > survived for so long simply because they managed to take over the American > schools section.
Why are you so keen on taking over the world? > > > - They are teaching (badly, but that's outside our scope) to use software > > > that (I hope) won't be used nearly as much much in the not too distant > > > future (ie by the time people now in 7th grade graduate). > > > > You should teach *something*. Why is C taught in schools? Is it > > the best programming language? Is it widely used? Well, yes, it > > is, but will it be widely used in five years? > > As much as I'm into object-oriented programming these days, I remember > C was expected to die a horrible death already over ten years ago and > still it's here alive and kicking. *Of course* it's alive and kicking -- it's taught almost everywhere. Chicken, meet egg. > Not to start a flame war I'll start it with someone else instead, then. > > What did I miss? Is OpenOffice the new Israeli standard? > > What about suggesting this to the ministry of education, as a matter of > standardizing the silabus and the school's IT systems? I prefer troff with -mm macros. Serioiusly though, I don't have the "us vs. them" mentality on this matter; I can't see why schools should teach MS Word, but I can't see why they should teach OpenOffice either. If we want to promote diversity, we should teach a little bit of everything. Vadik. -- Avoid reality at all costs. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
