Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:30:17 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda Message-ID: <20010312153017.A2824@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200103122305.f2CN54w21275@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:05:03PM %2B1300 References: <v04220805b6d1796cec93@[194.78.241.123]> <Pine.BSF.4.30.0103111438550.22814-100000@localhost> <200103122305.f2CN54w21275@ns1.unixathome.org>
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--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:05:03PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote: > On 11 Mar 2001, at 15:06, Darren Henderson wrote: > > When you know how to program and you know the syntax for one language, > > learning how to use others is no big deal. You may not work as fast in > > PL/I as you do in C, but if you know C, (or pascal or even cobol) and h= ave > > a good grounding in computer science then you can program in PL/I. You = may > > do it with the manual open continuously the first few times but you can= do > > it. >=20 > Oh I wish more people knew this! Umm, I mean employers. Of course, one can take this too far. For instance having worked with a number of scientists who learned to program in APL or FORTRAN, I can safely say that if I were hiring and someone's only significant programming experience was in one or both of those that resume would hit the round file about as fast as the one from the guy who's only work experience was flipping burgers. Heck, the guy who'd only flipped burgers at least wouldn't be a FORTRAN or APL programmer. ;-) Always remember, you can write FORTRAN in *any* language! -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6rVwHXY6L6fI4GtQRAk5oAKDcZ+2b73R7n1Gs4+6vewiC7vjetACeO+sm dc1LSJzYMrOnes+8GE4grag= =kJAN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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