Re: Undergraduate Decay (was Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6)

2003-03-14 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 13 Mar 2003, Ian Brayshaw wrote: > I do, however, agree with you Mr Shevek (despite my comments above). > I've seen too many "point'n'click" graduates who couldn't write > structured code to save their lives, and (more depressingly) can't see > why you'd want to ("What do you mean 'you write yo

Undergraduate Decay (was Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6)

2003-03-13 Thread Ian Brayshaw
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:43, Shevek wrote: > My opinion on programming (this week) is that the modern generation of > programmer has never used any system where commands are executed as you > type them, and thus they have no concept of a sequence of instructions, > and therefore they cannot prog