On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:52:01 +0100, Gavin Smith said: > And hard luck having to do Modula-2 - I had > to do it as well, and it's completely f*cking useless, employers don't want > to know you if you can't code in C/C++. Be thankful you aren't my younger > brother, who has to learn Cobol this year in college!!! That will come in > damn useful after the year 2000, I don't think.
A few of our lecturers used to set practicals in Modula-2 [the others use more obscure ones like Haskell and Caml], but about three years ago they switched to C++ (yuk, give me plain C any day). This year, however, they seem to have ditched C++ and gone on to Oberon (which looks remarkably like Modula-2, since we are not using the full development environment). At least the compilers are not as flakey as the old SunOS Modula-2 one. As for COBOL, well it's a bit late but I'd bet COBOL programmers are in high demand right now to sort out all the legacy code for the millennium. imc
