Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

Glen wrote:
|C and Assembly programmers are need to do embedded work-- NO one is
|going to make a programmable coffee maker with a pentium chip inside and
|windows nt (or ce or whatever).
|
|About the only thing you know about the IT labor market is that it will
|be unpredictable.  I don't doubt your dice.com count... but who is to
|say it will be the same next year.
|
|One thing positive about c is that it pretty well fills its niche
|without much competition.  So if you learn c you won't have to learn
|another language every 5 years.  Another thing is that it is
|standardized... you won't have to worry about m$ beating linux or linux
|beating m$.
|
|Dept of homeland security just decided to go with linux last week--
|theres a few VB jobs up in smoke right there.

Oh, yeah, those homeland security people sure know what they're doing.

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