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From: turnage@cc.gatech.edu (Jason Alan Turnage)
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/18
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Patrick Horgan (patrick@broadvision.com) wrote:

: If C++ is not a choice for you learn C.  Pascal won't get you a job.

   Unless you want to be a high school computer teacher (snicker, snicker)

: Of course I think you should learn at least seven or eight high level
: languages just for fun, and five or six assemblers for the same reason.

   No doubt.  No good programmer only knows one language.  And no
   really good programmer doesn't know assembly.


--
Jason Turnage
Georgia Tech
turnage@cc.gatech.edu