Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <20030131140647.R86479@mippet.ci.com.au>,
Dave Horsfall  <daveh@ci.com.au> wrote:
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>On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kelly Hall wrote:
>
>> People who know only C and Assembly have decided fewer job opportunities
>> than those that know Visual Basic and MS-SQL.  Do a search on dice.com and
>> see for yourself.
>
>I've never held a job in my life that required knowledge of those (or
>indeed anything else tainted with M$).  Knowing "C" and assembler has
>always been a positive; then again, I'm not in the shoddyware game.

Nor have I done MS-programming on the job.  I do Java now, C and
assembler have both been valuable in the past.  Visual Basic?  That's
not even the same job market.  Sure, there's more jobs for VB
programmers than C and assembler.  There's also more jobs for Wal-Mart
cashiers.  Big deal.




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