From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: xlp Subject: Re: Offtopic. Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:43:28 -0500 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020729124328.B3013@nietzsche.metrotel.net.co> References: <20020729082601.C896@nietzsche.metrotel.net.co> <3D456E49.3050303@fi.uba.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3D456E49.3050303@fi.uba.ar>; from dmarian@fi.uba.ar on Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:33:13PM -0300 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dar=EDo_Mariani?= Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org > > Hi, I am writting document in spanish about UNIX programming because I have > > found that south american universities are focused on Windows, The students > > and teachers think the computer science is Windows, they dont know others > > OSes, They dont motivate students to understand OSes internals, I dont > > understand Why the degree is "system engienering" if they dont know about > > memory manipulation, threads, procress, IO, debuggers, etc. > > Why study 5 year of engineering if they will work doing clicks and running > > 'wizards' ? Where are the south american researcher?, Where is the curiosity?. > > Universidad de Buenos Aires (www.uba.ar) and it's not the only south > american university. I dont want to start a pointless debate, however, The south america engineering is focused on configuration and administration of foreign technology; Yeah, I can find a couple of 'unix gurus' at Argentina, but What for? There is no a school of research and the average engineer is not well structured. bye.