Biting Brit Commentary
In this piece from the UK’s Register, Dominic Connor savages British Computer Science Higher Ed:
His biting style is a little over the top, but entertaining. I hope not everything he claims is true.
A couple gems:
Java fanboys tell me that it is “easier” than C++, and seem miffed when I agree in a sneering way. A CompSci grad is supposed to be able to do difficult things that arts grads simply can’t understand. … BMW don’t say their cars are “so simple that they are built by cows” …
As far as I can tell, only Queen Mary College has undergrads bright enough not to be scared of C++, and even then less than half take the option. Kings College students/victims told me that they do operating system internals in Java, and no they weren’t joking.
Ouch.