Re: gEDA-user: Why use gEDA? [OT]

[al davis <ad136@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 22:45, Marc Moreau wrote:
> *cough* vim *ahem*
>
> Sorry..  Couldn't resist.
>
> /me dawns the flame suit

Regardless of preference, at some time everyone will be 
confronted with something else.  Whether you like it or not, it 
is important to be able to cope with it.

I have yet to meet anyone skilled at unix that cannot cope with 
MS-windows when the need arises.  When I see a school that is 
all-MS, and graduates that know only MS ...  I assume they 
cannot cope with anything else.  Usually that assumption is 
true.  I assume such narrowness prevails in all that they do. 

I would go even farther on this  ...    Even if stuck with 
windoze ..   sometimes you still need to work with text files.  
The unix hack digs in and solves the problem.  The windows user 
says "I can't" and they call in someone else to solve the 
problem.

When I am interviewing job applicants, this is the kind of thing 
I look for. 

As a teacher, try to emphasize this, even in the tests.  The 
highest grades go to those who can dig in and solve strange 
problems.  I don't care about memorizing formulas.  I have 
gotten both praise and complaints for this policy.

A couple years ago, despite pressure from other faculty, I used 
gnucap in class, with mixed results.  Within a year later, two 
of the students came back (separately, without knowledge of 
each other) to tell me how much it helped them in a job 
interview.

I have seen things like this over and over.


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