Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986)

[hshubs@mindspring.com (Howard S Shubs)]

In article <brucehoult-0708990201320001@bruce.bgh>, brucehoult@pobox.com
(Bruce Hoult) wrote:

>Actually those guys pretty much paid for me to learn Java -- they told me
>I'd be doing C++ but while I was in transit from NZ they decided to get me
>to do Java stuff.  Luckily I'd packed my Java in a Nutshell (ok, I wasn't
>a *complete* stranger to Java, but the most I'd done with it was start to
>teach my girlfriend to program).

That's for me!  My problem is that I've got nothing on my resume to say
that I've ever even looked at OOP, because I've never done it
commercially.  I've done some academic work, and I think I understand OOD
pretty well, but it's a matter of finding someone who will let me prove
it.


>Weeell.  This week I had Unisys Outsourcing pay me to learn Perl as the
>previous times that I'd looked at it by myself I'd gone *Yuk!!* and
>stopped.  But, on the other hand, I like Dylan so much that I'm spending
>all my free time working on a public domain compiler for it
>(<http://www.gwydiondylan.org>).

See?
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