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  1. Path: keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail
  2. From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
  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 20:24:17 -0800
  6. Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
  7. Message-ID: <4idfphINNnmb@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
  8. References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com- <RMARTIN.96Mar15105350@rcm.oma.com- <4icd4rINNbnh@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca- <4icvu5$45t@natasha.rmii.com>
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  11. In article <4icvu5$45t@natasha.rmii.com>, Jim Cochrane <jtc@rmii.com> wrote:
  12. >Unfortunately, many, if not most, job advertisements do exactly that -
  13. >inflexibly call for knowledge of a particular programming language or tool
  14. >set.
  15.  
  16. And that of course reinforces all kinds of misconceptions and attitudes, like
  17. "if I learn this language that they are all asking for, I will land a kewl
  18. job".
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