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Post #29,674
by tonytib
2/25/02 6:21:06 PM
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New It can make you a better programmer
by opening your mind to different ways of approaching problems.

Many of the scripting languages interact very well with the 'standard' languages like C / C++ and with Win32 / MS stuff (at least, Python has pretty good COM and Win32 support). So another reason is some languages let you do stuff with the 'standard' languages that would very time consuming to do otherwise.

So far I'm enjoying using Python; it can do some really neat things compared to C++. I think it's a more productive language than C++, but the big reason I'm using it (with VB and C++ COM components) is that I can take advantage of its scripting to build in easy customization. C++ is not a good solution for this.

Tony
Post #29,872
by bconnors
2/26/02 4:08:10 PM
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New How to avoid the "Catch-22"?
You know, "Can't get a job without such-and-such language(s) in your background, and you don't have them in your background because your current employer doesn't use such-and-such language(s)"
BConnors
"Prepare for metamorphosis. Ready, Kafka?"
Post #30,328
by tseliot
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3/1/02 12:16:03 PM
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New Not to move this into the Job forum, but
Don't sell yourself as a cog. YAN nameless, faceless resource for your employer to use, abuse, and throw away. Interview by telling them how you're going to make them money.
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A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas;...despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel, but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas, they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires."

Jacques Servan, 1767
     Good article on how non language-neutral .NET is - (ben_tilly) - (7) - Feb. 25, 2002, 02:44:04 PM EST
         Yep, agreed -- but it's also an interesting discussion of - (tonytib) - (5) - Feb. 25, 2002, 05:31:50 PM EST
             language choices - (bconnors) - (3) - Feb. 25, 2002, 05:38:41 PM EST
                 It can make you a better programmer - (tonytib) - (2) - Feb. 25, 2002, 06:21:06 PM EST
                     How to avoid the "Catch-22"? - (bconnors) - (1) - Feb. 26, 2002, 04:08:10 PM EST
                         Not to move this into the Job forum, but - (tseliot) - March 1, 2002, 12:16:03 PM EST
             censorship - (tablizer) - Feb. 26, 2002, 01:12:54 AM EST
         Very Good - (tuberculosis) - Feb. 26, 2002, 01:01:31 AM EST

I don't mean by that that it gets worse, well I do, but I don't mean it that way. Unless you thought I meant the opposite of what I meant, in which case vice versa (or verce visa if you prefer).
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