Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!sei!rsd From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Theory vs. Practice in CS Education Message-ID: <5067@ae.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 22 Nov 89 16:37:09 GMT References: <4967@ae.sei.cmu.edu> <1989Nov17.090716.11068@cs.eur.nl> <4994@ae.sei.cmu.edu> <1989Nov21.141820.5263@cs.eur.nl> Reply-To: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 In article <1989Nov21.141820.5263@cs.eur.nl> Reino de Boer writes: >The point I'm trying to make is maybe best given in a simple example: > [example of summation program deleted] >Hope this explains -- reino It explains your words, but that wasn't my problem. There is near-total disconnect on ideas. How this relates to the original points on OS and software engineering, I cannot get. Sorry. Rich -- When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. Lord Kelvin rsd@sei.cmu.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------