Ted Mittelstaedt

"Scott in Aztlán" <slothkills@THEyahooOBVIOUS.com> wrote in message
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>
> dimension of an array. WAKE UP, SMELL THE NEW MILLENNIUM, AND USE A
GODDAMN
> LINKED LIST, FER CHRISSAKES! Then your program is only limited by the
amount of
> available memory, and, if the user needs more, he can go out and buy some
more
> RAM or a bigger hard drive.
>
> #end PEEVE RANT
>

Sadly, the Comp Sci courses always start by explaining arrays to the
student, linked lists
are done later in the term, if at all. It's kind of like mathematics
education, start with
long division and multiplication of large numbers, which calculators and
computers do today,
followed by real number formulas which hardly anyone does, end with calculus
and
imaginary numbers which are the mainstay of the mathematician. As long as
math education
and programming instruction are both handled in this ***-backwards method,
we will have
no shortage of programs which would serve better as assembly routines in an
engine
computer than as real userinterface software.

Ted

Scott in Aztlán

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 03:14:52 -0800, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
wrote:

>Sadly, the Comp Sci courses always start by explaining arrays to the
>student, linked lists are done later in the term, if at all.

So you're saying the people who write these programs dropped out before linked
lists were covered in class? That explains a lot, actually... ;)

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Scott in Aztlán

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 03:14:52 -0800, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
wrote:

>Sadly, the Comp Sci courses always start by explaining arrays to the
>student, linked lists are done later in the term, if at all.

So you're saying the people who write these programs dropped out before linked
lists were covered in class? That explains a lot, actually... ;)

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Scott in Aztlán

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 03:14:52 -0800, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
wrote:

>Sadly, the Comp Sci courses always start by explaining arrays to the
>student, linked lists are done later in the term, if at all.

So you're saying the people who write these programs dropped out before linked
lists were covered in class? That explains a lot, actually... ;)

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thelizman

<Note: Crossposted, hopefully for the last time, so some people can get
the hint>

Scott in Aztlán wrote:
<snip>

Do you think you guys can confine your offtopic discussion to your own
damn newsgroups? I doubt anyone in any of these newsgroups gives a hoot
about linked lists, arrays, enums, vectors, yadda yadda yadda.

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<Note: Crossposted, hopefully for the last time, so some people can get
the hint>

Scott in Aztlán wrote:
<snip>

Do you think you guys can confine your offtopic discussion to your own
damn newsgroups? I doubt anyone in any of these newsgroups gives a hoot
about linked lists, arrays, enums, vectors, yadda yadda yadda.

--
thelizman
hammerattack@teamrocs.com
teamROCS Car Audio Forums http://www.teamrocs.com/caraudio/
teamROCS Car Audio News http://www.teamrocs.com/news/
"It's about the music, stupid"

This post is Copyright (C) 2004. Reproduction of its content anywhere
other than usenet without the express written permission of the author
is forbidden.

thelizman

<Note: Crossposted, hopefully for the last time, so some people can get
the hint>

Scott in Aztlán wrote:
<snip>

Do you think you guys can confine your offtopic discussion to your own
damn newsgroups? I doubt anyone in any of these newsgroups gives a hoot
about linked lists, arrays, enums, vectors, yadda yadda yadda.

--
thelizman
hammerattack@teamrocs.com
teamROCS Car Audio Forums http://www.teamrocs.com/caraudio/
teamROCS Car Audio News http://www.teamrocs.com/news/
"It's about the music, stupid"

This post is Copyright (C) 2004. Reproduction of its content anywhere
other than usenet without the express written permission of the author
is forbidden.

Scott in Aztlán

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:03:43 -0500, thelizman <hammerattack@teamrocs.com> wrote:

><Note: Crossposted, hopefully for the last time, so some people can get
>the hint>

It always cracks me up when ******** make off-topic posts to complain about
off-topic posts, or make massive crossposts to complain about massive
crossposts, and see nothing wrong with what they're doing. :)

Here's a hint for you, genius: learn to use your ------- kill file. You can
PLONK by both author and by subject; had you done so yesterday, your panties
would not be in such a big knot right now. ;)

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Scott in Aztlán

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:03:43 -0500, thelizman <hammerattack@teamrocs.com> wrote:

><Note: Crossposted, hopefully for the last time, so some people can get
>the hint>

It always cracks me up when ******** make off-topic posts to complain about
off-topic posts, or make massive crossposts to complain about massive
crossposts, and see nothing wrong with what they're doing. :)

Here's a hint for you, genius: learn to use your ------- kill file. You can
PLONK by both author and by subject; had you done so yesterday, your panties
would not be in such a big knot right now. ;)

--
Friends don't let friends shop at Best Buy.

Scott in Aztlán

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:03:43 -0500, thelizman <hammerattack@teamrocs.com> wrote:

><Note: Crossposted, hopefully for the last time, so some people can get
>the hint>

It always cracks me up when ******** make off-topic posts to complain about
off-topic posts, or make massive crossposts to complain about massive
crossposts, and see nothing wrong with what they're doing. :)

Here's a hint for you, genius: learn to use your ------- kill file. You can
PLONK by both author and by subject; had you done so yesterday, your panties
would not be in such a big knot right now. ;)

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Friends don't let friends shop at Best Buy.