Re: [PATCH] fix threaded grep for machines with only one cpu

From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Feb 17, 2010, 15:29 UTC
Message-ID: <4B7C0B4D.6080803@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002161458410.1946@xanadu.home>

On 02/16/2010 09:00 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> [...]
>> Notice how your version (xyzzy) broke the cascade of if..elseif..else.
>>
>> Don't they teach this in schools anymore?
>
> What do you expect from academia?  School and real life are still too
> often disconnected.

When I taught C to second-year bachelor students, I think I did a pretty good course (*) but it totally lacked time to get into macros, except for simple constants. I did have a student later on that was doing his final project with me and came asking what it was.

Another guy I know is teaching an elective "portable programming" course that includes pretty much everything you'd expect (including bit-twiddling tricks, basic Autoconf, shared libraries, blah blah) but that's a graduate-level course.

    (*) and not too disconnected from reality.  One year their final
    one-week project was using cairo for graphics, had a server that
    talked to multiple clients using poll, and I forced them to support
    IPv6.  Shameless plug: http://github.com/bonzini/netrobots

Paolo