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: 111d6b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid111d6b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java? Date: 1998/02/11 Message-ID: <6bsddk$3cp$1@news.nyu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 324124906 References: <6at330$7uj$1@mainsrv.main.nc.us> <6bp6rh$sim$4@peachy.apana.org.au> <6bpoea$rd1$1@bvbsd2.kc.bv.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nyu.edu X-Trace: news.nyu.edu 887208180 3481 (None) 128.122.140.194 Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <6bpoea$rd1$1@bvbsd2.kc.bv.com> "dogmat" writes: >So all programmers should know their "roots"? Well, most programmers don't >know how a transistor works, and this doesn't seem to cause a problem. So >how far does someone have to dive in before they are "wellrounded"? The more a "programmer" knows, the more "well rounded" they are. I see no reason to set a limit to knowlege in any field: it's always better to know more than to know less. It's hard to see how a programmer could make anything of use with the knowlege of how a transistor works at the solid-state physics level, but a programmer would certainly have a better perspective of architectural issues if they knew basically what a transitor *did*, the differences between bipolar and MOS, and something about scaling issues and constraints.