Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!amos!hartung From: hartung@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Where are the pascal jobs? Keywords: crypticism Message-ID: <6505@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> Date: 27 May 89 03:53:39 GMT References: <695@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM> <6787@cbnews.ATT.COM> <14080@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <4764@uoregon.uoregon.edu> > <6921@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu Reply-To: hartung@amos.UUCP (Jeff Hartung) Distribution: usa Organization: Univ. of Calif., San Diego Lines: 23 In article <6921@cbnews.ATT.COM> cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr) writes: }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... Gee, I haven't seen stuff like this since I stopped reading misc.headlines and ca.politics! (Yawn. :-) --Jeff Hartung-- Disclaimer: My opinions only, etc., etc., BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!... ARPA - hartung@amos.ucsd.edu UUCP - ucsd!amos.ucsd.edu!hartung