Greetings, On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Asokan Pichai <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24 August 2010 21:20, Shakthi Kannan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> --- On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:32 PM, subhojit ojha >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> | I have suggested him to concentrate in JAVA and >> | Python, since I feel that JAVA is widely used Opensource language and >> Python >> | is also growing fast and has same type of features like JAVA. >> | >> | I am not a programmer >> \-- >> >> Contradiction? >> >> Widely used doesn't necessarily mean that it helps in solving >> problems. Always use a programming language that helps you to solve a >> particular programming problem, rather than choosing a programming >> language, and then deciding to solve all problems with it. > > +10 > > "If the only tool in your hand is a hammer, > every problem looks like a nail" > --- Edsger Dijkstra > > -- > Asokan Pichai
+1 !! Yay! at last some of my thoughts perfectly match here. I have done programming long back say in mid 80's in assembly, dbase and the such, in Fortran in late 80's, Pascal and c++ inearly 90's, Foxpro, Clipper and some Oracle SQL, PL/SQL and in mid and late 90's and early part of the century -- I still remember my tyrst with the Y2K -- some bash scripting in 90's of of the late my programming has mostly like a typist typing out e-mails, doing spell checks, pointing out other's error and the such. Now one needs to have intimate relationship with one's tools and the problem(s) at hand. The solution makes itself visible and slowly surfaces itself. Now, I am wondering what software maintanance practices are in Non-IT Corporates. That should itself could be a big industry. Just my 2 kaasu Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
