Re: more on broken schools

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
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We even got a guy with a PhD in CS from a university that I had previously
thought reputable who had never used a command line and who just could
not understand how make works in spite of the O'Reilly book.

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What O'Reilly book?  Are you saying the PhD was an O'Reilly-published
author?  That would be literally incredible.

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No, I mean that when he didn't know what make was, we handed him the
O'Reilly book about make.  Because that's how you learn things that
you don't know in the Unix world.  It did not seem to help.
He continued trying to write sequential build scripts using make.

Oh, I perfectly understand now.  (Thanks.)  I read ``make'' as a verb in
that phrase.  Yeah, it makes sense that someone with no make experience
(at all) could misuse it.  He likely didn't have any experience even
with competitors such as gradle or whatever.  Pretty sad story: as I
discovered flaws in my education, I felt hurt---people wasted my time,
made a fool out of me, hurt me emotionally and so on; not as a
conspiracy against me, but as a matter of course.  I feel lucky to have
noticed it throughout the process and not at too many decades later.