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Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:06:34 -0400
From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net>
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Gary Scott wrote:

> I don't disagree that this would be an impact of such a line of
> questioning.  I have no information that this occurred.  It certainly
> never happened with me.  However, I have discussed these issues with
> many programmers and it is a somewhat pervasive attitude that not
> keeping their C language skills honed places them at a competitive
> disadvantage.

This is a somewhat surprising attitude to me. Working with various
languages increases one's repertoire of programming methods and design
techniques. I should think that given a choice between a person who
knows C and nothing but C, and a person who has written non-trivial code
in C, Ada, Java, and (say) Lisp, the second person would be more likely
to be a better programmer... or a better software engineer.

Peter