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From: ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: CS education
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Date: 6 Dec 89 11:55:35 GMT
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billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) writes:

>   Performance should be documented by the OS vendor.  Compilers should
>   document their performance with respect to the OSs they run under.  If
>   this is not done, then the information can be developed by specialists
>   in performance issues.  There is no need for application developers to 
>   do the work of the vendors or or the performance issues analysts.

>   I repeat: Enough to understand how to use the tool, and no more.

Perhaps ALL computing professionals should go on a really good documentations
course in their first year. Your point would become true. At the moment I use 
this operating system which is not even understood by its authors :-(

Ge' Weijers
Ge' Weijers                                    Internet/UUCP: ge@cs.kun.nl
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6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands              tel. +3180612483 (UTC-2)