Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!cbema!las From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Where are the pascal jobs? Keywords: crypticism Message-ID: <6921@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 26 May 89 17:10:38 GMT References: <695@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM> <6787@cbnews.ATT.COM> <14080@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <4764@uoregon.uoregon.edu>> Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr) Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant) Lines: 24 In article <4764@uoregon.uoregon.edu> lth@drizzle.UUCP (Lars Thomas Hansen) writes: }In article <14080@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c289-ch@seymour.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Class Account) writes: }}}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. }This is easily the most ignorant remark I've heard in a long time... Well it isn't the most ignorant remark I've heard lately. Nor is it the most inane, nor the most pompous, nor assinine... self-serving... foolish... stupid... short-sighted... fatuous... empty-headed... prejudiced thing I've heard now or ever. It's not even the most inflamatory - which, I suspect, was the whole purpose. regards, Larry -- Signed: Larry A. Shurr (cbema!las@att.ATT.COM or att!cbema!las) Clever signature, Wonderful wit, Outdo the others, Be a big hit! - Burma Shave (With apologies to the real thing. The above represents my views only.) (Please note my mailing address. Mail sent directly to cbnews doesn't make it.)