Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!seymour.Berkeley.EDU!c289-ch From: c289-ch@seymour.Berkeley.EDU (Class Account) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Where are the pascal jobs? Message-ID: <14080@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 23 May 89 04:51:22 GMT References: <695@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM> <6787@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: c289-ch@seymour.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Class Account) Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 10 }But, there isreally atrivial difference between C, PASCAL, etc. If I }interviewed at a firm, and they were concerned if I knew C rather than }PASCAL, I would think this is a petty, short-sighted firm. Well, there is quite a difference you see. If you are use to writing in pascal, your code will be clear and understandable, whereas if you are use to C, then your code will be much more cryptic and hard to debug. If most of the money in software is spent on maintaince, you can see why they would want to hire C programmers --it gives them something to do.