Students who rely on that will never really learn.
From my perspective, most supposedly modern systems have been a bigger
waste of time than some of the older ones.
Windoze, Linux, etc. in some ways still have not caught up to features
that Multics and Plan 9, among other systems, had to offer decades ago -
and they are bolting things on that came naturally to the older systems,
so they don't work very well in contrast. They build complexity on
complexity instead of leveraging a simple consistent approach that can
actually be understood.
Multics was in some ways a conceptual precursor to today's "cloud
computing" (in the sense that it was engineered to be a multi-tenant
system with separate projects being billed for the resources they used),
while also introducing the world to concepts such as access control
lists (ACLs).
Plan 9 offers a level of network transparency and process
interoperability that most of our "modern" systems don't seem to be able
to get right, not to mention having been well-designed for working
transparently across systems with differing architectures (SPARC, MIPS,
etc.) out of a common file system.
If a student just wants to write business logic for some big company
doing batch processing or wants to create web sites or some such then
sure, let them stick with what is out there at the moment. If they
really want to understand computers and computer programming, they
should try to learn from the ground up. Being limited to "modern"
systems won't get them nearly as far as being exposed to a range of
ideas and different approaches that have been taken over time.
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
―Edmund Burke
On 2/4/22 12:48 PM, Kurt H Maier via 9fans wrote:
On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 09:30:26AM -0600, Kent R. Spillner wrote:
In your experience do students appreciate being told what's best for them? ;)
In my experience needing to be told what's best for them is the defining
characteristic of a student
khm
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