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  1. Path: rmii.com!jtc
  2. From: jtc@rmii.com (Jim Cochrane)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
  4. Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
  5. Date: 15 Mar 1996 23:53:41 GMT
  6. Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
  7. Message-ID: <4icvu5$45t@natasha.rmii.com>
  8. References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com- <4i862r$1evq@saba.info.ucla.edu- <RMARTIN.96Mar15105350@rcm.oma.com- <4icd4rINNbnh@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca-
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  11. In article <4icd4rINNbnh@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca-,
  12. Kazimir Kylheku <c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca- wrote:
  13. -In article <RMARTIN.96Mar15105350@rcm.oma.com-,
  14. -Robert C. Martin <rmartin@oma.com- wrote:
  15. - -In article <4i862r$1evq@saba.info.ucla.edu- jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) writes:
  16. - -
  17. - -   [Discussion Deleted]
  18. -
  19. -
  20. -I'd say that someone who insists on disparaging a particular language is just
  21. -as clueless as those wannabees. A job advertisement that inflexibly calls for
  22. -knowledge of a particular programming language instead of real software
  23. -engineering qualifications is usually a warning sign to stay away.
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  25. -
  26.  
  27. Unfortunately, many, if not most, job advertisements do exactly that -
  28. inflexibly call for knowledge of a particular programming language or tool
  29. set.
  30.  
  31.  
  32. Jim Cochrane
  33. jtc@rmii.com
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