Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 23-05-2010 22:58, Peter Olcott wrote:
"Tom Anderson"<twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 May 2010, Peter Olcott wrote:
I heard this from two different reliable sources on
newsgroups.
This is the funniest thing i've heard all day. Reliable
sources on newsgroups! Whatever next?
Someone that I have been conversing with for many years
was
one of these two sources.
But given that:
- China is the country in the world with most internet
users
- China is the second largest IT outsourcing country
- China has its own Linux distro, own OOo version etc.
- China has huge internet sites that are real competitors
to Google, FaceBook etc.
then assuming IT in China is crippled does not sound as
a smart assumption.
There is also more direct evidence that is inconsistent
with the
assembly language only theory. For example, see
http://www.cs.sjtu.edu.cn/data/Computer%20Science%20Curriculum.pdf,
the
Undergraduate Program Curriculum& Course Description for
the
School of Electrical and Information Engineering at
Shanghai Jiao Tong
University.
"CS 315. Object-Oriented System Design:
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Software design and construction in
the context of
large OOP libraries. May be taught in C++ or Java. Topics:
review of
OOP, the structure of Graphical User Interface (GUI) OOP
libraries, GUI
application design and construction, OOP software
engineering
strategies, approaches to programming in teams."
The natural language issue may not be much of a hindrance
for those
students. The "Common Core Required By The University"
includes four
English courses, and the students are required to read
textbooks in
English.
error. Someone told me something like if it is not pure
Chinese then it is against the law to be used in China. I