I haven't posted in a while -- forgot to reply-to-edu-sig :)
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From: Lloyd Hugh Allen
Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 09:26
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Do we "teach computers" when we write code?
To: kirby urner
As a math teacher, using the particular example of sum
Yes sir, exactly. I believe that in calling computers "stupid", other
epithets, we're asserting our aggressive primate dominance over these
gray boxy things that in some science fiction have beamed aboard
spaceship earth in order to steal our jobs or something, because
they're smarter than we are.
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:
> I haven't posted in a while -- forgot to reply-to-edu-sig :)
>
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I replied but to an earlier part of this thread -- I trust our human
readers to make the connections. :)
Kirby
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:
> I haven't posted in a while -- forgot to reply-to-edu-sig :)
There is a long-running rwar between those who think that mailing
lists should have a reply-to set to the mailing list address, and
those who think that replies should go to the
In a message of Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:09:36 PDT, Edward Cherlin writes:
>There is a long-running rwar between those who think that mailing
>lists should have a reply-to set to the mailing list address, and
>those who think that replies should go to the previous sender by
>default. Is it worse that mi
