Re: FW: Objective C vs. Java
Re: FW: Objective C vs. Java
- Subject: Re: FW: Objective C vs. Java
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:23:08 -0700
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Tyler LaGrange wrote:
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> Also, Java is a much smarter approach if you would like to learn
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> something that can be applied to OTHER areas of computing. There are a
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> countless number of jobs out there in the market today that are looking
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> for Java Experience. There is a MUCH smaller number of Objective-C
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> coders being looked for.
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With a little discipline one could learn Smalltalk at the same time one
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learns Objective-C, since Objective-C was inspired by Smalltalk. If
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you do the same search on Monster for Smalltalk programmers, you find
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some demand. Of course if we only learned the most sought after thing
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on job boards we'd probably all be writing visual basic, and poorly.
Oh, and also... Java programmers _are_ more abundant, this is true, but go
out and look at what the average salaries for NextStep programmers are
compared to salaries for Java programmers. If you can find the information,
you might just be shocked.