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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: [OT] Bad CS course, no cookie (Was: To C or not to C++)
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

> When I did theoretical computer science at university, we used
> whatever type was convenient and appropriate for the task at hand (and
> more often than not it was "alpha" or "A", rather than any specific
> type).  And that was for "there's no need to test the code, because we
> prove it is correct on the blackboard" programming, which is as
> academic as it comes.

Care to name and shame?  That's an extraordinary thing to say (if it was
not a joke)?

-- 
Ben.