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From: mnykanen@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The programming CULT
Message-ID: <2840.26b7eb6e@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 2 Aug 90 08:59:26 GMT
References: <312@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <312@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
> Seriously though, CS education is extremely useful and helpful, but, like 
> many other fields, it teaches you only a small amount of what you need to 
> know.  Anybody who is even remotely successful needs to go way beyond 
> this.  People who don't may feel more comfortable with something other 
> than a Macintosh.
The trouble with CS majors and the Mac (note the .sig below..) is that
we have grown up amongst genuinely user-hostile arcane computers (my U
had a BURROUGHS..) and thus come to accept - even ENDORSE (UNIX!) - 
nonintuitive interfaces etc. Then we recommend the same to others as 
authorities in the field. Just yesterday a teacher in my dept. rejected
my suggestion that Word & Expressionist might be easier than TeX with
"WYSIWYG tends to be distracting when *real* work is being done"..

On the other hand, will the Mac generation once be in the same position?
"I really can't see why the fuss about sight-directed interfaces. I can
do the same with my mouse!"
-- 
Matti Nyk{nen
CS Student at Helsinki U, Finland
email: mnykanen@cc.helsinki.FI

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