[SLL] faking Unix knowledge? pretend to know open source Unix?

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Brian Hatch wrote:
> Close to 2009-01-13 12:58 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin shouted:
>> teaching Java to students I will continue deploying Tomcat and other
>> open source Java tools.
>
> "Because they're doing it already, I'll enable them" doesn't sound
> like a good motivation.
>
> Your statement is akin to "As long as they're clubbing baby seals,
> I'll ferry them to the ice shelves."

Ah, memories. That soft thunk sound as the club hits... oh, sorry.
I should have been more clear... I support machines that students
use to do projects! I can't very well demand they learn some new
technology in a week--though I do recommend it sometimes when
they're trying to, for example, write a GUI in matlab. If I were setting
CS 101 or 201 curriculum personally I would not use Java, though
that has more to do with Java hiding complexity (pointers?) than
Sun's mismanagement of JRE/OS integration.