Why aren't we all speaking LISP now? (Andy Todd)
Andy Todd
atodd at spam.free.email.com
Thu May 10 20:34:23 EDT 2001
Laura Creighton <lac at cd.chalmers.se> wrote in
<mailman.989504777.9309.python-list at python.org>:
>Andy Todd quotes me and then writes:
>
>>However, The discussion is an interesting one but has one *major*
>>presumption; that the study of computer science is the study of
>>programming.
>
>Ah, you need to read what I wrote again. I said that at the University
>of Toronto people who studied computer science got computer science,
>not programming, and it was a bad fit because they didn't want to study
>computer science, they wanted to study programming. You also need to
>buy a good atlas an consult with it before asking me questions about
>the difference between and education in the United States and in
>the United Kingdom, because Toronto is in Canada.
>
>Laura
>
>
>
Laura,
My apologies for not paying the requisite attention. My only (feeble)
excuse is that in my enthusiasm to contribute to the debate I didn't check
what I was quoting carefully enough.
I also promise faithfully not to interchange the phrases 'US', 'Canada' and
'North America' in future, please put it down to my physical distance from
these places blurs the distinctions ;-)
Regards,
Andy
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