Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:34:23 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IFRoZSBzb3VyY2UgY29kZSBvZiAgKkJTRCBjb250YWlucyB0aGU=?= =?UTF-8?B?IGNvbW1lbnQgIOKAmERvZXMgdGhpcyBiZWxvbmcgaGVyZT/igJk=?= Message-ID: <534E86DF.5090509@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <20140416140146.ea3c5ca82242b3068b3acde1@sohara.org> References: <COL127-W50854C41C300BA3C07D981E8500@phx.gbl> <COL127-W3715056578EC3F958B38B8E8530@phx.gbl> <20140416140146.ea3c5ca82242b3068b3acde1@sohara.org>
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On 16/04/2014 14:01, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:41:19 +0300 > Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos <jorgeassembler1@outlook.com> wrote: > >> I am very interested in being answered, please help me > > I don't think anybody sees a question, just a quote from a nine > year old article. If you're asking whether there is a similar comment in > the FreeBSD kernel sources a quick grep reveals this one: > > ./sys/proc.h: * XXX: Does this belong in resource.h or resourcevar.h instead? > > It fails to inspire any lack of confidence in me, of course I don't > have a doctorate in computer science just thirty-five years experience in > developing code professionally. > I spent five years working in a university CS department (followed by 30 in the real world), and it's quite possible to get a PhD in CS without even being able to program a real world computer, never mind make competent remarks about anything as complex as an OS. Some of CS is basically mathematics using abstract computational models like Turing or register machines, no hardware needed.
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