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- From: fwf27775@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Fritz W Feuerbacher)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: Do any employers use Modula-2?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:37:03 GMT
- Organization: University of Central Florida
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- Steven William Carvaines (carvaines.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
- : As part of our computer science curriculum at Ohio State, we learn
- : Modula-2 as one of our 'first' languages (we also learn Pascal). I've
- : checked with a few potential employers, and none of them need anyone with
- : Modula-2 experience. Most don't even know what Modula-2 is. I've been
- : told by professors that learning Modula-2 is a stepping stone for learning
- : other languages. I don't buy that. So my question is this: has anyone
- : come across an employer who uses Modula-2? It would be a shame to become
- : proficient in it and never use it again.
-
- Modula-2 is an excellent language to learn with. It will help a great deal
- later when you go into software engineering in greater detail. Modularity
- is key to good project maintainability and reusability, at least thats
- what I keep reading in my Object oriented textbook. Modula-2 is object
- based and is probably the best learning high level language there is in
- my opinion.
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