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- From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Re: The Real Meaning of Efficiency? (Re: Serious Programming, etc.)
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- Subject: Re: The Real Meaning of Efficiency? (Re: Serious Programming,
- etc.)
- From: Richard Fateman, fateman@peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 17:48:47 GMT
- In article <1ej8dvINN3u2@agate.berkeley.edu> Richard Fateman,
- fateman@peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU writes:
-
- >We are not a vocational school.
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-
- you can't possibly believe that, richard.
- berkeley, illinois, mit and all the rest of the so-called 'institutions
- of higher education' are absolutely, definitely vocational schools.
-
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-
- >>it has been said that you shouldn't teach programming with mathematica
- >>because its a bizarre and inconsistent language...
- >
- >I'll agree with whoever said that.
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-
- actually, you said some time ago.
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- >If you want your students to believe that computers are magic,
- >although sometimes unreliable, then Mathematica is your language!
-
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-
- using a macintosh will also make you believe this.
-
- aside - someone once said that any technology that is sufficiently
- advanced is equivalent to magic.
-
-
- have a nice thanksgiving, richard.
-