Let Go, Standard Library From Community

[Stephen Waits]

David B. Held wrote:
> 
> compiler actually does.  The "Java Syndrome" helps students treat the 

Ahh, thanks for giving it a name.  I'll add that to our vocabulary here.

We've been seeing this get worse and worse in the past 5 years.  It's to 
the point now where entry-level candidates we interview, from some 
high-profile schools, cannot write a basic recursive function 
(factorial) or demonstrate any knowledge about pointers, memory, or 
anything to do with bits.

That's been my experience anyway.

Basically, seems like the students aren't learning much about the 
machine any more.  Were they ever?  Or were us "old-timers" (I'm 35, not 
quite an old timer, but whatever) just so excited about the whole thing 
that we all spent way too much time learning stuff on our own?  (I also 
quit college so I could learn more)

I fear for some of the guys coming through here, that some day they may 
find themselves inside a paper bag.

--Steve