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Hi Steve,
I have been following your blog for close to 3 years now, from the time I graduated with my Master's in CS and had enough time to kill :)
Awesome job! Please Keep writing !!
Am not sure if you would actually see this comment and respond, but, it would be great if you did!
I worked predominantly in Operating System research during grad school and developed an Assembler (Yes! Not a compiler and some folks still do write production code in Assembly Language :) in my first job, but, am a routing protocol developer in my present job.
I've never really learnt C++ even, though I've developed "programs" in C++, Java, what_have_you :) I wouldn't brag about my C++/Java knowledge ;-) To summarize I am reasonably good (maybe, really good)at C , but, it would be too much to claim I am as good at C++ and the likes without actually having done anything productive in the other programming languages. For the kinda jobs I'm interested in, I've never really seen anything other than C being used though archaic(basic??) ideas of OOP do feature in the code base.
Phew! Atlast!! The question I wanted to ask.
Does it make sense to start working (learning)on a programming language like C++ or the likes just to broaden my repertoire ? Or with future jobs in mind ? Given a choice, I would like to learn Lisp the right way and invest my time in it!
Looking forward to your response.
Thanks,
Shiva.
May 14, 2008, 11:56:00 PM
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