Re: more on broken schools

Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

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. 

Right, but how do you get to the point of having a doctorate in CS without
having used make?  But it was worse than just that: he couldn't get the
concept that make figured out what was needed to build things by itself
and then figured out what was needed to build those things and then figured
out the order to build them by itself.  Once you figure that out, actually
writing a makefile is not a big deal unless you need portability for a lot
of weird machines.

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.

I don't feel bad at all about having an imperfect and often missing
education.  Nobody can know everything.  But my education was good enough
for me to have the tools to learn things that I might need in the future,
and that's what I need.
--scott


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