Re: informix market share

On 2005-11-28, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
> M Segel wrote:
>
>>>And it isn't just at the University of Washington, 1.5 miles away from
>>>Bill Gates house. It is the same at the vast majority of colleges and
>>>universities.
>>
>>
>> Ahh, now the truth comes out.
>> Teachers are lazy these days.
>> Rather than teach theory, they teach product.
>
> Been a long time since you've been in a university eh. Seemingly a
> very long time. ;-)

        No. It's just that not all Universities are created equal.

        My alma mater taught theory. They are probably still annoying students in this manner this day.

        It's not the decade, it's the institution.

        Some CS students can get out of school not knowing what a regular expression is. Others will not be able to graduate before having written a parser of their own.

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