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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: deafen@imap2.asu.edu Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/09/05 Message-ID: <50m5qb$dov@news.asu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178622898 references: <4vroh3$17f@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <50iunc$arm@ns.broadvision.com> <50m0na$m89@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> followup-to: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada organization: Arizona State University newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I appreciate the perspectives that all of you have offered. However, I feel it necessary at this point to make a clarification of my original post (about being a CIS student, etc.) I may have chosen the wrong word to describe a certain concept. The word I used, "fundamentals", is being interpreted as what I would describe as "design concepts." FWIW, I use the word "foundations" for that. I was commenting on the idea that all programmers need to understand just exactly what's going on at the assembly level to be good programmers. I disagree. As for the comments about what employers want, absolutely, I shot my mouth off, foot buried deep inside. Of course I don't know what's expected in the business world as far as programmers go; like the .sig says, I'm primarily a tech, not a programmer. On top of that, I'm a student, and therefore in most ways isolated from the "real world." The curriculum in which I am enrolled stresses design and analysis rather than coding. (Again, please note that I'm in CIS, not CS. At my school, CIS is a business degree, and CS is an engineering degree.) I probably would be having more fun if the curriculum involved more coding and less design, but that's neither here nor there. Just offering a clarification. And I guess someday I'll learn to keep my mouth shut. (Or maybe not...:) -- Hal Haygood :: PC/Network/Unix technician, Suntek Integrated Technologies hal@suncap.com :: deafen@asu.edu :: hagar@mail.hvs.com My opinions and those of my employer rarely, if ever, coincide.