From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 12 15: 5:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2908237B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:05:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2CN54w21275; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:05:05 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200103122305.f2CN54w21275@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: Darren Henderson Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:05:03 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11 Mar 2001, at 15:06, Darren Henderson wrote: > One of the common misconceptions I've seen from non-programmers is that > "knowing" a language is the same as knowing how to program. Its exactly > backwards. And very common amongst employers. I have encountered only one that was looking for knowledge and theory, not specific skills. They wanted people who knew object based programming. They when provided training in the langagues they were using. > 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 have > 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. Oh I wish more people knew this! Umm, I mean employers. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message