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From: [e-mail] (Bill Seurer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Do any employers use Modula-2?
Date: 19 Jan 1996 17:03:02 GMT
Organization: IBM Rochester MN
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If you are a CompSci student you should learn AS MANY languages as you can
whether or not you ever use them in your "real" job someday or not.  Why?
Because every language has its own way of looking at problems and if you
learn several of them whatever language you eventually use you will be
able to come up with better solutions.  Also, the more languages you learn
now the easier it will be to learn any new languages in the fuuture.

Way too many people go to college looking to be trained for a job.  That
shouldn't be your goal.  You should learn as much about your chosen
profession as you can.  In our fast changing world whatever language
is tops today could be on the outs by the time you graduate anyway.

I learned Modula-2, Pascal, and C when I was in college and was exposed
to Simula-67, Ada, COBOL, and several others.  I now wish I'd spent more
time with those others.  Most of my programming is in C++ and Modula-2
now but the mix of experience (I think) gives me an advantage over those
who have had only C/C++ in college.

As for employers that use Modula-2 there are several groups here at IBM
in Rochester that use it.  And some groups at other sites doing work for
us use it as well.
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- Bill Seurer     ID Tools and Compiler Development      IBM Rochester, MN
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