Computer Science

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi Chris,
I'm not going to get involved in the "bookshare wars', but since you were 
chastizing others on this list because most people use WINDOWS and not 
linux, I think its only fair to point out that your computer science 
department is very nonstandard.  Though I am a meteorologist, not a 
computer science person, I know many computer science students in the past 
and the present.  Teaching WINDOWS programming is very nonstandard.  I 
would guess that at least 90 percent of the schools teach programming on a 
UNIX variant of some kind.  In the past thre was a fair amount of people 
using VMS.  However, a lot of beginning C and C++ classes did use 
Turbo/Borland.  WINDOWS programming is much more difficult than UNIX 
programming, so I suppose you are to be congratulated for making it 
through such a tough curriculum.

     Jim Wantz