Well I believe this may begin to change as now in the real world of Data Processing and Information Technology, Linux is beginning to spread and even to once proprietary IBM mainframes. C++ is being re-written to plain old C Language as well. Amanda Lee Alexandria, VA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:49 PM Subject: Re: Web Browsers with Javascript? > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Thomas Ward wrote: > > Personally, I do not have a clue why colleges push java script. ... > > It might be some evil plot to send students into the workplace with the > skills that are currently needed in the workforce. It could be that they > are thrying to second guess what will be needed. > > While there are many jobs that don't involve any programming that will run > on a Winblows machine, there are many more jobs that will have you program > for a winblows machine. Colleges are in the evil numbers game and want > their students to find jobs so that more students will be suckered into > the experiance. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > One of the most overlooked advantages to computers is... If they do > foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little. > -- Joe Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
