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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111d6b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid111d6b,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: John Seitz Subject: Re: Which language pays most 17457 -- C++ vs. Java? Date: 1997/12/18 Message-ID: <3499C34A.A187B478@pobox.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 299501090 References: <199712121931.LAA25389@sirius.infonex.com> <66sfln$uac@lotho.delphi.com> <3498315B.144B@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <349745D3.F4AA0460@seasoned-software.com> <34994D43.6858@ici.net> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------6AA4CD00E3D4710C5DCC1CA9" Organization: FLORIDA ONLINE, Florida's Premier Internet Provider Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: seitz@pobox.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6AA4CD00E3D4710C5DCC1CA9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I personally think Pascal in a great educational language. However, if you want to learn a something for the money Learn Powersoft's PowerBuilder. Salaries for that programmer are very high. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think you want to see if you like programming by using Powerbuilder. If you just want to tinker, I really like Delphi. You learn about Objects and datatypes. You also get to play with a GUI builder. John Alicia Carla Longstreet wrote: > BASIC should *NEVER* under any circumstances be taught to first time > programmers. It is the worst possible language to use to teach > programming. This tirade does not apply to the various modular > languages, like Visual Basic, that are not really BASIC but use Basic in > their names. > > C is actually a good first langauge. The set of keywords is small so > the instructor can concentrate on concepts like data types, structured > programming, modularity, encapsulation and data hiding,and algorithms > rather on a thousand and one commands needed to do all of the above. A > beginner needs only and for the first semester, and > 60% of the functions in these can be safely ignored. That leaves less > than 100 keywords that the beginner needs to learn. > > Secondly there is absolutely no reason to learn C before C++. If you do > not need to learn C go right ahead and just fucus on C++ and ignore C. > The idea of learning C first is based on the myth that C is a subset of > C++. > > > COBOL, in case your curious, would be closer to basic, but come AFTER > > it(unless you choose not to learn basic). > > COBOL is a dying langauge (although it may take years to die). Learning > COBOL is learning the past. right now, because of Y2K issues, COBOL is > paying EXTREMELY well, but anybody starting out now to learn COBOL will > likely miss the big bucks associated with Y2K. > --------------6AA4CD00E3D4710C5DCC1CA9 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Seitz, John Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: John Seitz n: Seitz;John email;internet: seitz@pobox.com x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: TRUE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------6AA4CD00E3D4710C5DCC1CA9--