Hello Hans, Sunday, January 27, 2008, 5:02:57 PM, you wrote:
>> studied at Moscow University in 89-91 and department of computer >> languages still studied Lisp at those times (!). a few months ago i >> > This reminds me, I worked at a Dutch telecomm software production > company for a short while in 1999 and they had two Russian software > engineers there, one from St. Petersburg and one from Wladiwostok, both > female and under 25 years of age. They programmed in C and were highly > respected by their managers and colleagues! So, there are at least > counterexamples :-) no. you should asked them HOW they learned programming and i'm pretty sure (knowing too much about our universities and institutes) that they were just a self-learned - like myself. generally speaking, our higher education now just starting to teach students "new" Java technologies - you can imagine how old is knowledge they get there. actually, all the good russian programmers i ever seen are self-learned -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe