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> bog standard languages like SQL, VB, Perl, et al Sorry grandpa, but the smart kids these days aren't learning those (with the possible exception of SQL). Lo

• xentronium 16y ago
  > The wheel has turned further, and MS is seriously worried about the lack of young people immersed in their technology. If CS grads were smarter, they’d see this as an opportunity, because MS is still a vast percentage of all corporate IT. Yes, VBA is the worst language in the history of the world, but you can get good money doing it, and a good programmer knows that it is how you think, not the language you code in, that determines your ability. The sooner VBA dies, the better for humanity. Thus, the so-called ignorant CS grads should better be called humanity saviours.
• gaius 16y ago
  No-one wants to hire someone who won't work in a language they see as "beneath" them. The author even goes onto mention F#[1] and CUDA in the next sentence as examples of what he considers cutting edge. [1] A major project of Simon Peyton-Jones, who in his spare time is a leading light in the Haskell community
  • endtime 16y ago
    I'm not saying that VB is beneath me, I'm just saying it's ridiculous to expect fresh grads to have experience with it.
    • gaius 16y ago
      I'm not so sure. I mean, I picked up Tcl/Tk at college not because it was ever taught in any course, but because I needed to make GUIs for my own code on AIX (rather than generating a .ps graph on the command line, printing it and looking at it on hardcopy!). It's entirely feasible that an undergrad at a Windows institution would pick up VB on the side.
      • endtime 16y ago
        There's a difference between "it's reasonable to expect fresh grads to know X" and "there might be a few fresh grads who happen to know X".
• hogu 16y ago
  he's a big headhunter for finance. Try to get banks to drop VB. good luck.