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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
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Subject: Re: CS students unexposed to C
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Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 14:49:38 EDT
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Your comments are in violent agreement with the previous ones.
Anyone who graduates with a CS degree these days and hasn't
learned at least a little about UNIX shows the major problem
with places claiming to have a computer science department.
Any serious Operating Systems program would have case studies
of several operating systems (of course when I was studying it
was stuff like VM and EXEC-8).  However, as prominent as UNIX
is, and the fact that it is an approach rather than an implementation
(many people argue that the implementation sucks), it should be
part of the curriculum.

It is amazing that you can still get CS grads who only know
the PASCAL on the O/S that they were allowed to use, and not
any kind of diversity.

The ACM attempts to reform this are meeting with dissent from
the chincier CS departments.

-Ron