Re: [ossig] (Fwd) an email from a malaysian chinese from australia.

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

He, Hong Yee,

cheer up again !

On the long run, people get what they deserve; what they strive for and
what they actually want.

> OS class teaches mainly theory of OS. Some even asked you to write a small OS 
> to complete the course.  Seems to me he really did not appreciate the class, 
> as he would realise OS X is a good implementation of 2BSD and 3 BSD on top of 
> the Mach Kernel. 

I wouldn't have guessed that; but in any case, appreciation is something
that you cannot club into someones mind.
We all are suffering from this fact. 

> In a lot of schools, such courses are put consider decision information 
> science. A lot of theory on data structure and relational mathematics were 
> taught.   When I was in school Oracle on VMS was the main platform students 
> were taught in. (mainly because it was given to them) Back then people do 
> care about if tables are properly normalised.  Not sure about now, but if the 
> intention is to teach students how to write SQL statements then something is 
> wrong. 

If you define 'wrong' like this, then, yes, 'rotten' like Hamlet said.
But I'm getting boring if I continue. You've had enough of my excerpts
on education.

Once again, cheer up !

Uwe 



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