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>On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 5:40 AM, 
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 wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 08:31:32 +1100, Michael F. Tomkins <<

>bahkyp@blitzen.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

>> 

>> Don't want to sound like a smartarse but, you only know three (hum 

>> make that 1) computer languages ? Shit man I've nearly finished my 

>> compsci degree and I've learned tcl/tk, C++, C, java, Pascal and 

>> scheme. I'm  not including shell scripting, thats not a language 

>> just a lot of fun ! Pity you don't know any cobol, then you could 

>> make some money out of the 2K bug.

>> 


>You don;t know those languages.  You've done some programming in
them.


>You won't know them till you have had a year or so of real work
including

>maintining other people's code.


>Why do you think employers want at least a year's experience? 
Because

>graduates think they know what they are doing, it takes a year

>or so to give them some of the stuff they really need to know

>and to knock the silly ideas out of them.


I think Oscar Wilde summed it up best "The old believe everything; the
middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."


Graeme





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