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- From: Dave Navarro <dave@powerbasic.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 14:16:26 -0800
- Organization: PowerBASIC, Inc. (http://www.powerbasic.com)
- Message-ID: <3161A73A.256B@powerbasic.com>
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- Alistair Brown wrote:
- >
- > peter willis <peterw@coastnet.com> writes:
- > >Be prepared to do continuous learning in the area of languages. There is
- > >no easy way unless you want to be a one system only kind of
- > >programmer.(like most)
- >
- > >Learn anything about everything about computer languages and you will do
- > >fine.
- >
- > Agreed. Remember that it's not the computer or the compiler which is
- > writing the programs, it's you.
-
- Doubly agreed. I've seen programs written by people in QuickBasic which were
- better than other similar ones I've seen written in C++. I've seen C++
- applications which were better than anything I'd seen written in any other
- language.
-
- It's not even what you know.. But how you apply what knowledge you do have.
-
- --Dave
-