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Programming Language Specialization Dilemma
3/22/2009

Aremstar writes "I'm a final-year actuary Science student from the UK. During my studies, we covered 3 data processing languages languages: C, C++ and Java. The issue is that we didn't cover any of these languages in sufficient depth for me to claim that I have commercial-ready experience. It's one thing being able to write simple programs for class assignments, but those are quite unlike from writing object as complex as the Linux kernel or a multi-threaded banking app. I'm cerebration of pin money a few weeks/months thought in order to utilize
idioms:avail oneself of in one of those languages. Fortran also entered my consideration, as it is great for numerical balancing the books* and used by many popular institutions, banks, etc. In terms of skill requirements in job ads, my (brief) feel suggests that most pinchbeck


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