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Re: Linux Question [message #42617 is a reply to message #42567]

Thu, 17 February 2005 08:33

R.G.Stockwell
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Registered: October 2004

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"Paul Van Delst" <paul.vandelst@noaa.gov> wrote in message
news:cv0kuo$2cj$1@news.nems.noaa.gov...
> David Fanning wrote:
...
>> It's not really a matter of intelligence. Most of the
>> people in an IDL class have advanced degrees in physical
>> sciences. It is something else, and I can't really put my
>> finger on it. (I used to think it was because they were forced
>> to use LINUX computers, but now I know better.) They
>> don't understand programming at all. They don't really
>> know what a variable is, they don't know how to type
>> a program, they don't understand how windows work on
>> their computers. Really basic stuff I would have thought
>> you learned as a physical science undergraduate. But
>> if so, they have forgotten a lot of it.
>
> Ah, I know what you mean. When I first came ot the US ('93) I was amazed
> at the number of graduate students (in science fields) that didn't know
> how computers worked and had never programmed at all. How can that be?!?
> Bizarre. Didn't everybody learn about registers, CPUs, ALUs, Math
> Coprocessors, etc. in their Experimental Methods classes?

I can't tell you how happy this makes me.
I read this and I think "job security", after all, someone has to
know how to compute.
Ahh!

Thanks for the morning "pick me up".

:)

-bob "whistling while he works"

PS and know that I know how to find DLMS, I feel that I may
have achieved complete and utter mastery over all computer related fields.
:)

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		Linux Question By: David Fanning on Wed, 16 February 2005 09:54
		Re: Linux Question By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 17 February 2005 12:15
		Re: Linux Question By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 17 February 2005 12:23
		Re: Linux Question By: Mr. No Address on Thu, 17 February 2005 11:33
		Re: Linux Question By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 February 2005 11:09
		Re: Linux Question By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 February 2005 11:06
		Re: Linux Question By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 17 February 2005 11:02
		Re: Linux Question By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 18 February 2005 14:24
		Re: Linux Question By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 February 2005 10:55
		Re: Linux Question By: Mr. No Address on Thu, 17 February 2005 09:15
		Re: Linux Question By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 17 February 2005 08:59
		Re: Linux Question By: R.G.Stockwell on Thu, 17 February 2005 08:36
		Re: Linux Question By: R.G.Stockwell on Thu, 17 February 2005 08:33
		Re: Linux Question By: K. Bowman on Thu, 17 February 2005 06:19
		Re: Linux Question By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 February 2005 02:23
		Re: Linux Question By: Paolo Grigis on Thu, 17 February 2005 01:56
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		Re: Linux Question By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 16 February 2005 23:57
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		Re: Linux Question By: David Fanning on Wed, 16 February 2005 20:44
		Re: Linux Question By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 16 February 2005 20:34
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		Re: Linux Question By: David Fanning on Wed, 16 February 2005 20:18
		Re: Linux Question By: David Fanning on Wed, 16 February 2005 16:51
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		Re: Linux Question By: David Fanning on Wed, 16 February 2005 16:13
		Re: Linux Question By: Robert Barnett on Wed, 16 February 2005 15:43
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