This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, September 1, 2018 10:44:57 PM MDT Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) 
via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 09/01/2018 01:51 AM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> > But in saying that, we had third year students starting out not
> > understanding how cli arguments work so...
>
> How I wish that sort of thing surprised me ;)
>
> As part of the generation that grew up with BASIC on 80's home
> computers, part of my spare time in high school involved some PalmOS
> development (man I miss PalmOS). Wasn't exactly anything special - you
> pony up a little $ for Watcom (or was it Borland?), open the IDE, follow
> the docs, do everything you normally do. Read a book. Yawn. After that,
> in college, had a job working on Palm and WAP websites (anyone remember
> those? Bonus points if you remember the Palm version - without WiFi or
> telephony it was an interesting semi-mobile experience).
>
> Imagine my shock another year after that when I saw the college I was
> attending bragging how their computer science *graduate* students...with
> the help and guidance of a professor...had gotten a hello world "running
> on an actual Palm Pilot!" Wow! Can your grad students also tie their own
> shoes and wipe their own noses with nothing more than their own wits and
> somebody else to help them do it??? Because, gee golly, that would be
> one swell accomplishment! Wow! Hold your hat, Mr. Dean, because Ivy
> League, here you come!!

Ouch. Seriously, seriously ouch.

- Jonathan M Davis