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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "Self-taught" programmers
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Date: 25 Jan 89 19:17:00 GMT
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/* Written  7:04 am  Jan 24, 1989 by phil@mit-amt in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
/* ---------- "Re: "Self-taught" programmers" ---------- */
In article <3709@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> danm@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Daniel Milliron) writes:
>In article <76000334@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>Virtual memory is not the type of software some self-taught programmer
>>can knock off in a weekend with a couple of pots of coffee :-) In
>>fact, most self-taught programmers probably couldn't hack the problem
>>at all.
>
>I don't want to turn this issue into a flame-throwing war...


Look, I apologize for a badly phrased uncalled-for slur on self-taught
programmers.  I myself was a self-taught programmer before I went to
college, there was no way I could have implemented VM then.  Even
today, I have enough sense to be scared of the task.  What I meant to
say was:

"Virtual Memory is Tough.  It is a lot trickier to do than a standard
Mac application.  There are a lot of people out there who would have
trouble getting the software right.  It takes some advanced study
[reading books] (and probably some experience) to get it right.

$295 is cheap, considering the cost of developing VM"


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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