At 1:06 PM -0400 6/18/05, Wirt Atmar wrote:

>As part experiment, and as part of a serious new effort on our part, it is my
>intention to offer a six-week on-line class:
>
>     "Philosophy of Modern Programming:
>      building exceptionally reliable and robust systems"
>     July 11 to August 19, 2005.

Very nice.

As background (or as "chile picante" or foil?), you might check:
http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Cosas/Reliability.htm

Caveat lector: The author of this material is Louis Savain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_lector


I highly recommend Wirt's course.  Even though I have never taken this
particular offering, I have enjoyed learning about "a very pretty idea,
finite state automata theory" from Wirt for the last 25 years or so --
although I prefer to spell the topic thus: finite-state automata ;-)

This may very well be the best-invested $125 in your careers.

Still learning at a prodigious rate, after all these years,

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