On Jan 25, 2010, at 21:37, Kaj Kandler wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Nick Peelman wrote: > >> >>> I'd say most professional programmers haven't coded C or ObjC in their life. >> >> I pity those who didn't learn in C (myself included on that list). If >> they have a Computer Science degree worth the paper its printed on I >> sure as hell hope they didn't learn on Java. > > Your logical conclusion is to pity those who learned not in assembly. > > Really there are plenty programmers out there that don't have a Computer > science degree. But sure no Computer science degree is worth anything if all > they learned was a programming language and not learned to program. > > K<o>
Fair point. I'm just jayded by the fact that my raw C skills are lacking. Its a brick wall i hit everytime I open up the project i work on. I will go a step further and say that knowing how to program is worth nothing if the programmer doesn't have a good set of requirements, some handle on how to system works as a whole (including the user, OS, other applications, and the application in question), and a bottle of good scotch (or bourbon) in his desk drawer. -nick -- Nick Peelman [email protected] "If you're attractive enough on the outside, people will forgive you for being irritating to the core." _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
