"It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient."
Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" (mostly about JAVA) discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.
For students at many private colleges, the Clinton Administration's new "Hope Scholarship" may be less of a boon than they have been promised. The $1,500 tax credit, signed into law by the...
Australia's first private higher-education institution, Bond University in Queensland, has lost a court bid for control of its campus and now faces possible eviction.
Lynn University's Board of Trustees last week upheld the nearly $350,000-a-year salary and compensation of the president, Donald E. Ross. The board had been re-examining the president's pay in...
It was a big week for two distance-learning ventures. The California Virtual University named a former University of Pennsylvania provost, Stanley A. Chodorow, as its first chief executive officer...
Many private colleges have tapped their endowments to pay for increases in financial aid. The Johns Hopkins University tapped Michael R. Bloomberg. The business-news mogul's recent $30-million...