G'day all. On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 11:45:07AM +1200, sashan wrote:
From a practical perspective, unless you want to pursue a career in academia, you should focus on a language like Java or C++, since these are far more marketable than Haskell.
I disagree. Most sufficiently nontrivial pieces of software have some kind of scripting system built into them. Many of these scripting systems are proprietary and unique, mostly because they're domain-specific. You WILL be asked to write code in one of these scripting languages at some point in your career. If you end up on the other side of the fence, you may even be asked to maintain one of these. A very important skill these days is the ability to pick up a new language quickly. Being familiar with how very different kinds of programming language work is going to get you a long way there. Cheers, Andrew Bromage