I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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