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From: "dogmat" <macdonaldrj@bv.com>
Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/02/10
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cyanide wrote in message <34DF23BE.156895CB@stopspamiinet.net.au>...
>> > Or maybe its just caring to read a new book every now and then. I'm
>> an
>> > engineer self-taught in OO, and I can run rings around most
>> programmers.
>> > (Although, not of course someone like yourself who follows these
>> > newsgroups. If you are reading this, you are different from the
>> majority of
>> > dead-fish.) P.S. This is too depressing to be a boast.
>
>Kewl, someone's gotta tell us 1st years how impressive our programming
>is... er... well I got a good mark the _second_ time I took "CSP 1163
>Programming Principals with ADA". (TIC*).
>
>Oliver White.
>Remove stopspam to write me back and offer me a job with boeing.
>
>*TIC: "Tongue In Cheek". A new TLA** conceived by myself.
>
>**TLA: Three Letter Acronym. See "Unix for Dummies".


TIC aside, if you're a 1st year writing this, you ain't your ordinary 1st
year.
My advice is not to expect your course work to teach you everything you need
to know.
You'll still have to study independently. Do that and you'll get your job
with Boeing.