Re: Class Ideas Needed

Phil Edwards <news-uk@dircon.co.uk> wrote: >Gil Jaysmith wrote: >> < lots of good stuff ending with: > >> Anything non-language-specific but which mentions one or two generic >> languages on the way. I'd rather have someone who understands _why_ C >> works than someone who understands how it works. >Which reminds me of the best IT employment recommendation I've ever >heard: employ people who did Latin at school. If you can learn a highly >structured and dead language (one that you can't just 'wing it' in) >you've probably got the right kind of brain for IT. And you don't have to go all the way to Latin. Just hire someone with correct Oxford English accent. Or anybody who has overcome his/her local accent. -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao@crl.com