Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kaz Kylheku Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: What do they teach in school today? Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 14 Message-ID: <20150820163148.218@kylheku.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: OGJi3KNpFOhM58UHZwXj0w.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:5643 On 2015-08-20, J. Clarke wrote: > I was talking to a recent computer science graduate today. He had never > seen C, never seen Fortran, had no notion of a shell script or batch > file, had never heard of ActiveX or .net or gcc. I don't know where you're getting the idea that a fresh graduate should have interacted with Fortran. LOL. No self-respecting CS department on the planet has foisted Fortran onto undergraduates in some 30 years. I last touched Fortran in some miserable engineering course in 1989 which required it; the CS department had nothing to do with the stuff already.