Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: rtm and uucp
Message-ID: <1988Nov15.180821.20324@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8409@alice.UUCP> <8597@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <90@lazlo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 88 18:08:21 GMT

In article <90@lazlo.UUCP> ccs@lazlo.UUCP (Clifford C. Skolnick) writes:
>What evidence do you have that college students are evil programmers
>whos code should be verified?  It does not take a college student to place
>a section of unathorized code into a program...

The problem with college students is not that they are evil crackers, but
that college software quality control is not the best, to put it mildly.
Colleges are organized to produce ideas and degrees, not high-quality
software.  It shows.  The popular software distribution from a certain
university in southern California is a good example of interesting ideas
often marred by first-cut [i.e. poorly thought out, messy, sometimes
incomplete] designs and implementations.

This is not to say that any random commercial organization, like, say,
one whose name has three initials and an "&" in it, will *necessarily*
do better.  But those people can, in theory, afford to spend some money
on quality assurance.  Universities generally can't.
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