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Re: Objective-C (Possibly OT)
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Re: Objective-C (Possibly OT)


  • Subject: Re: Objective-C (Possibly OT)
  • From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:13:23 -0500

On 1/14/02 at 2:34 PM, Greg Titus wrote:

> IMHO, breadth of experience and having multiple ways to look at a
> problem is _the_ main differenciator between a good programmer and a
> merely average one.
>
> I don't care whether you'll ever have a job writing in Lisp - you ought
> to learn the language and play with it for awhile. ....

Amen, brutha. I go so far as to recommend that people learn an 8-bit assembly.
6502 or 8088 or whatever. Just something so you get some idea of what your
instructions are turning into. As it happens, my experience with 6502 assembly -
learned because I couldn't do what I wanted with AppleSoft BASIC and couldn't
afford a "real" toolchain - got me into the door of the company where my work
has remained interesting and challenging for several years.

G


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