I remember I had asked my professor what he thought about Django or Rails. He said he had never heard of those before, and I was better off learning C++ if I wa

I remember I had asked my professor what he thought about Django or Rails. He said he had never heard of those before, and I was better off learning C++ if I wanted to get anywhere in the IT field A Computer Science degree is not a Programming degree. Furthermore, the number of companies actually using Rails/Django is small compared to the number of companies using Java/C++. It's easy for me to learn a language on my own. It's hard for me to learn a paradigm on my own.