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To: whd23
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I took his question to be which language would give him the best and most new job prospects, not which one would allow him to win the Nerd of the Year contest.
118 posted on 01/13/2012 1:35:43 PM PST by LivingNet
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To: LivingNet

Maybe most jobs, but on a flip-side, he’d be competing with hordes of programmers from here, India and China. Sometimes it helps to learn those older languages to get a niche job.

For example, my brother works with hardware engineers and the firmware group. They have a very difficult time finding young programmers with C knowledge or experience. There will likely be a long-term need for firmware programming in C because it is so efficient.


121 posted on 01/13/2012 5:00:38 PM PST by Betis70 (Bruins!)
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