Not all the SDSU CompSci classes were completely valueless, I will admit, and at least being in that degree program allowed me to meet sci-fi writer (now departed) Vernor Vinge, who signed my copy of A Fire upon the Deep (which I eventually lost somewhere between moves). I took elective classes in #artificial_intelligence and learned some Common Lisp. But most of what I remember of the #compsci curriculum at SDSU in the 1990s was rather faddish, and I expect that's typical of most such curricula. I wasn't getting a well-structured and rigorous academic discipline; I was getting a collection of vocational exercises, learning how to use #programming tools that happened to be popular at the time. So I ended up doing a lot of C++ homework, and in my last term (when I hurriedly took a bunch of CS classes I'd been putting off because I was putting far more effort into my Classics curriculum) I had to do #Java homework, for a required "object-oriented programming" class.

Ah, #OOP. The very acronym suggests a blunder.

@angelastella

I'm not as zealous as some who are putting stops on their updates.
I'll switch to forks as they become available.
I'm going to ride out this garbage the same way I rode out NFTs, CryptoScams, and various #CompSci helltrends. :/

Lord, I hate this timeline.

Wonderful:

“Celebrating Tony Hoare’s Mark On Computer Science”, Bertrand Meyer (https://bertrandmeyer.com/2026/03/16/celebrating-tony-hoares-mark-on-computer-science/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422228

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/tr5qdg/celebrating_tony_hoare_s_mark_on_computer

#RIP #Obituary #ComputerScience #TonyHoare #CARHoare #CompSci #CS