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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: more on broken schools (Was: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:47:52 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>
>> We even got a guy with a PhD in CS from a university that I had previously
>> thought reputable who had never used a command line and who just could
>> not understand how make works in spite of the O'Reilly book.
>
>What O'Reilly book?  Are you saying the PhD was an O'Reilly-published
>author?  That would be literally incredible.

No, I mean that when he didn't know what make was, we handed him the 
O'Reilly book about make.  Because that's how you learn things that
you don't know in the Unix world.  It did not seem to help.
He continued trying to write sequential build scripts using make.
--scott
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