Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!kira.egr.msu.edu!elliss From: elliss@kira.egr.msu.edu (Stew Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Timo Salmi's obnoxious postings Message-ID: <1991Apr16.141336.26928@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 16 Apr 91 14:13:36 GMT References: <1991Apr15.074642.3009@uwasa.fi> <1991Apr15.205114.12145@cs.ubc.ca> <1991Apr16.024816.11806@wdl1.wdl.loral.com> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 28 My feelings about this thread put me in mind of an old folk-saying: Give a person some fish and you will feed that person that night, teach the person to fish and feed him/her for life. As a teacher I constantly run into students who do not want to learn the more general method of how to solve a problem but just want the quick-and-dirty way to solve the specific problem they are plagued by at the moment. I applaud Professor Salmi for his efforts to impose problem solving discipline on the questions. A couple of times his archive has also been the only place I could find a recent version of some program/source-code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _________________________________ R.Stewart (Stew) Ellis / _______________________________/ Assoc. Prof. of Social Science / / ______ ____________ __ Dept. of Humanities & Social Science / / /___ / / ___ ___ / / / 1700 W. Third Avenue / / / / / / / / / / / / Flint, MI 48504 / /__________/ / / / / / / / / / 313-762-9765 Office /______________/ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/ elliss@frith.egr.msu.edu ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE "Apple Macintosh, the closed system for people with supposedly open minds." - plagiarized from someone else on the net "How you gonna do it? OS/2 it!" - stupid IBM ad "Have you ever heard anything so half-OSsed?" - me