Re: Testing job applicants

["donald tees" <donald@willmack.com>]

I am always astonished by the mindset that considers writing good code
important, yet denigrates write decent prose. It has always, though, been
one of the common downfalls of our profession.

Peter wrote in message <37da20ae.15732201@news.netcomuk.co.uk>...
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>Too bloody right! Couldn't have put it better myself.
>
>Here in the UK, exam pass percentages are improving all the time.
>There is no prize for guessing how this is done: falling standards.
>
>>Today's college student, in general, can barely read and comprehend a
>>piece of prose which would have fallen well within the capabilities of
>>a 14-year old back in the '60's.  What's more, today's graduate, again
>>in general, has no notion whatsoever of sentence structure, as it was
>>taught by sentence diagramming, etc, back in the '50's and early
>>'60's, particularly as a tool for grammatical/syntactical analysis for
>>the purpose of understanding a difficult sentence.  Today's graduate
>>blames the writer for his inability to understand.  I blame the
>>graduate, since he's unwilling to put in the time and effort to learn
>>this most basic of tools.
>
>
>Peter.
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