From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (TRAN PHAN ANH) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/23 Message-ID: <1996Jul23.122905.122935@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169701955 references: <4sf9e7$kl7@news.jump.net> <4slt4p$9jj@ns.broadvision.com> <31EF54CA.15FB@spectrospin.ch> organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Irritating, but that's the reality. There are subtle points and pitfalls with all languages. How many times have you wondered why something that should work, but does not? Then you find that the reason it does not work is due to some "idosynchracies" or "features" of the language? :-) Therefore, companies ask for experience. And C/C++ is a skill that is asked about quite often. Of course, a good problem solver makes a better employee than a person, who "just" knows a dozen of languages. But a good problem solver with expertise in a dozen of languages is a dream for any company. Anh In article <31EF54CA.15FB@spectrospin.ch>, Reto Koradi writes: > Patrick Horgan wrote: >> In my company and in many other startups in Silicon Valley doing >> the bleeding edge work in the newest cool stuff, you can't get a >> job without being a C++ programmer, period. > > Such statements keep irritating me. Programming languages are nothing > but tools, and if you know the principles of programming and have > learned a few other languages, you start programming in C on the > first day, and learn about the more subtle points with time. > I grew up with the Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon line (what do you expect > when studying at Wirth's university?), and didn't have the > slightest problem programming in C when I started my first job. > > Even though C and C++ dominate the workplace, languages like Modula-2 > are still much better for learning programming. > -- > Reto Koradi (kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch, http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/~kor)