I figured out how to prefix the > characters (I had to drop out of HTML mode).
> I see. Was this department part of a larger department? Or was it autonomous?
> [1]
Our CS department was part of the engineering department, and side-by-side
with the EE department. Many of our courses were cross-listed with EE.
>> (INT 021)
>> In my assembler, a hex number is simply written with a leading zero.
>>
>
> Hmmmm... the problem is that C/C++, Java, Perl, C# etc. (which from what I
> know are the languages with the largest communities of programmers), have a
> convention of starting _octal_ number with a leading zeros, and hex numbers
> with the prefix "0x". While you are free to deviate from this convention in
> your own invented syntaxes, you should use the syntax that most of the people
> here or elsewhere would understand. In Rome, act like a Roman.
I'm not in Rome. Although I loved it at first, octal hasn't been necessary for years..
>> (lib.c)
>> I realize that C makes things a lot more portable. I'm stuck in a DOS
>> window and on an Intel processor. I've been "stuck" there since about
>> 1976. OK, 1980 if you want to get technical, however the port from the
>> 8080 was trivial, and it gave me my first opportunity to write my assembler
>> in itself. I suspended my third or fourth effort at rewriting it when I
>> took up this Freecell project. I really need to get back to it, and
>> implement a 32 bit version.
In case this wasn't clear, I've been very happy being "stuck" on Intel and DOS.
Who knew in 1980 that in 2005 I'd still be running programs written back then.
When you can port forward 25 years that's pretty good.
>
> [1] - I think the Computer Science and the Electrical Engineering departments
> should be combined into one department. In the Technion, where both
> departments are separate, there are tons of duplicate courses in both, and a
> lot of penis envy. Computer Science courses have a vast and deep network of
> dependencies, which is constantly enforced, and that may be the case for EE
> too, even though I did not notice because I'm an EE students and already had
> to take most of these dependency courses anyway.
I liked them side-by-side, the way they were at CU. I imagine that every school
is a bit different. Ours were pretty well integrated.
> It is generally known that Computer Science courses that are given by the EE
> faculty are easier than the equivalent ones given by the CS faculty, and that
> the CS faculty's Electronics courses are easier than the EE ones.
That wasn't apparent to me. When I hired on at HP in 1972, we had new hires
from both EE and CS departments. The first time I saw a CS PhD was several
years later.
>
> In MIT they have or at least had one department for both topics. So for
> example, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, one of the
> classic texts on CS, was published by "The Department of Electrical
> Engineering and Computer Science, MIT".
Received on Sun Sep 04 2005 - 07:35:13 IDT