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Message-ID: <38057DAB.8EC3BB69@snetch.cpg.com.au>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 16:52:27 +1000
From: Michael Abbott aka frEk <20014670 AT snetch DOT cpg DOT com DOT au>
Organization: Student of Computer Power Institute
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Why not DJGPP?
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Heya

> > The training wouldn't really be that hard would it? The kind of thing the school
> > would be teaching would be ANSI-C orientated right?
>
> Kinda... people in general don't like change a whole lot. If something changes,
> they have to figure it out... and it will cause them grief and misery. My
> teachers figure, if it aint broke... don't fix it.

But it's almost the same!!! I hated school for that same reason!!! Noone wants anyone
to try and figure out anything new never mind having to change themselves!

> > but if your school doesn't, why not ask them if you can use DJGPP
> > instead of BC/++ > to do projects, etc. ?
> >
>
> We do, but sometimes, they want future classes to be able to look at our
> programs, and use/improve/learn from them. And when we leave, so will DJGPP's
> presence, and nobody will be able to use our stuff... It's kind of like a
> legacy thing.

Definitely sounds like my old school... We had to do all our projects in Turbo Pascal 7
'cause they didn't like us using DJGPP C/Allegro and getting projects that looked 1000s
of times better than anyone else's projects.

I could have killed the teacher that did that!!!

I would explain to them that what a school is there for is for the better development
of people's knowledge, not for the betterment of the school... By having BC/++ and
limiting the people that are striving toward their goals they may be getting their
"legacy" but they are missing the whole idea anyway!!! I'd rather have people working
for me that know what they are doing then people who pretended they know what they are
doing because they wouldn't change!!!

- Michael

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