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   Scott Dorsey to smirzo@example.com   
   Re: more on broken schools (Was: Re: Sch   
   26 Feb 25 19:47:52   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Salvador Mirzo   wrote:   
   >kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >What O'Reilly book?  Are you saying the PhD was an O'Reilly-published   
   >author?  That would be literally incredible.   
      
   No, I mean that when he didn't know what make was, we handed him the   
   O'Reilly book about make.  Because that's how you learn things that   
   you don't know in the Unix world.  It did not seem to help.   
   He continued trying to write sequential build scripts using make.   
   --scott   
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