From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Salvador Mirzo   wrote:   
   >I don't have much information.  The command line seemed an awful   
   >experience to them.  I suspect that they thought that the command line   
   >was archaic means of system interface and that perhaps it was just a   
   >teacher idiosyncrasy.   
      
   This is something I see a lot of... we get interns who are engineering   
   students or computer science students and they have never seen a command   
   line of any sort before.  Not bash, not powershell, not anything.  They   
   first of all don't get the command line concept and secondly they don't   
   get the concept of the heirarchical filesystem.  "The file is on the   
   computer!"  "But where on the computer?"  "It's on the computer!"   
      
   We even got a guy with a PhD in CS from a university that I had previously   
   thought reputable who had never used a command line and who just could   
   not understand how make works in spite of the O'Reilly book.   
      
   I think some of these concepts have to be introduced early on, but they   
   NEED to be introduced early on in order to get any kind of basic computer   
   literacy.   
   --scott   
      
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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