Re: multimedia degree at UTS

Ryan Shelswell (ryan@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:27:13 +1100 (EST)

Iain asks:

>Can you tell me how programming in "C" is the same as, say, designing
>a brochure - not in terms of "aims and methods" bullshit, but in terms
>of structure, form, reflexivity, temporality, and efficiency?

- even though

>Asking questions is good - but not in the university context,
>unless you want to waste your time.

Presumably, we should ask

>someone with a deep understanding of design and computing
>theory, history and practice

however,

>There are very few such people, and
>few of those would want much to do with universities

- even though they don't seem to work in *industry*, because

>Market forces don't
>proscribe [sic] quality. Most people are content with mediocrity, which is
>why television and radio makes money. No room for bright sparks there.

and

>the work is usually dull, and the product usually sucks in a very
>deeply disappointing way

Anyway, assuming we did find them, we *could* ask them, and even add:

>Can you
>tell me someone who can, and could their ideas encompass arbitrary
>instances from both disciplines at the model-theoretic level?

however, I don't think would bother to answer, because

>Australians have good bullshit detectors.

Ryan