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

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

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