From: Paul Van Bellinghen <pvanbell@mhv.net>
Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/01/31
Date: 1998-01-31T22:21:53+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34D3A4A4.9E58315C@mhv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6arori$jne1@odie.mcleod.net
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> Successful
> product teams tend to have a good mixture of skills, including
> new CS grads, number crunching analysts, Computer Engineers and
> reformed EE or ME engineers doing SWE along with the token current
> EE and ME. It is amazing how much is in the software and how little
> is in the hardware (reoccurring effort) for most products these days.
Reading this got me thinking about the people I've worked with over the past 23
years that I've been in this field (I am also an embedded SE with a EE degree). I
recall that in the 70s when CS majors were rare in schools, the SEs usually came
from Math, Physics, or EE scholastic backgrounds. In the 80s, most were CS
majors. Anyway, what I found was that the educational background rarely mapped to
the success an SE had when working in the "Field". The "success correlation" had
more to do with how well the individual could learn and adapt to the project at
hand and the company's way of doing things. It seems that regardless of
educational background, an SE is constantly in a position where he/she must learn
new material - whether software or system related. Projects and languages are
forever changing - even within the same company. I agree that an SE that stops
learning is technically dead (like Engineers turned managers who become schedule
experts). For an experienced SE, learning a new language is a snap - its just part
of the job. That's why when I 'm out on job interviews, I laugh at these managers
who worry so much about how many years of experience I have had in a specific
language. That should be the least of their concern.
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1997-12-12 0:00 ` Which language pays most 17457 -- C++ vs. Java? Roedy Green
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1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
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1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
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1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-22 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-21 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-18 0:00 ` James Giles
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1997-12-28 0:00 ` John Winters
1997-12-30 0:00 ` paulr
1997-12-31 0:00 ` Which language pays most " arnie sherman
1997-12-30 0:00 ` Dann Corbit
1997-12-31 0:00 ` John Slaman
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1998-01-23 0:00 ` dnns
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1998-02-10 0:00 ` Drifting further off topic cyanide
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1998-01-28 0:00 ` Philosophers Mad Hamish
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Philosophers Kurt Wall
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java? Robert Garskof
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Steve Dekorte
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1998-01-28 0:00 ` dogmat
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Tim Oxler
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1998-02-03 0:00 ` GLE
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1998-02-02 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
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1998-02-02 0:00 ` This thread has drifted miles from its subject line Wes Groleau
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