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Well, do they know the language, or have they just written a little code in it? I don't think I really know a language until I've spent a couple of years in it
by kabdib 10y ago
Well, do they know the language, or have they just written a little code in it?
I don't think I really know a language until I've spent a couple of years in it, and written something significant in it (rather than just doing maintenance and tweaks in an existing code base).
This works in your favor: You read that resume and perceive someone who looks like a coding star. As someone who reads a lot of s/w engineering resumes, I see someone who's potentially making strong claims that they can't back up. Or worse, someone who thinks they're better than they are. At that point you read the rest of the resume for evidence to back up the claims; if someone claims expertise in a horde of languages and they've only actually worked in a few, that's interesting data.
I used to put LISP and a bunch of different variants of Pascal and assembly languages on my resume, until I realized that nobody really cared.
Just claim what you know well. Don't worry about looking good.
- cosinetau 10y agoI guess that would put me at really only knowing PHP and C++, and even still that C++ claim is pretty dubious knowing my own history, sparsely spread out over a long period of time. I don't feel like a coding star, really, I'm just a petty mathematician whose really excited to engineer stuff. In my defense, I have learned (through attrition) that one tool will not make all solutions so, when presented with the opportunity I take the time to learn something new. But, for the record, I think knowing several variants of assembly is wicked cool. Thank you kindly for putting your thoughts forward, I will take them serious thought.
- burfog 10y agoI really care. Go for it: post contact info and how well you know assembly. What CPUs? What modes? (16-bit, 64-bit, etc.) Plain, FPU, privileged, vector...? What can you do? (writing assembly files, writing inline assembly, reading one of those, doing disassembly, using IDA Pro, etc.) Could you emulate a CPU? Could you JIT, and if so, from what to what?