I found this article extremely difficult to read, as he seemed more concerned with enunciating through italics than with expressing his point in a clear and unambiguous manner.
I am pretty sure the Carnegie Mellon remark was just saying that a CMU CS graduate would have learned this already. Which is true, since the blog author (Bob Harper) teaches a course there which covers this very topic!
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I found this article extremely difficult to read, as he seemed more concerned with enunciating through italics than with expressing his point in a clear and unambiguous manner.
This and the comment suggesting that if you went to Carnegie Melon this would all be obvious were a bit of a turnoff.
I am pretty sure the Carnegie Mellon remark was just saying that a CMU CS graduate would have learned this already. Which is true, since the blog author (Bob Harper) teaches a course there which covers this very topic!