X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 12:52:05 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu Subject: Re: developer excitement? was Re: [geda-user] gEDA/gschem still alive? In-Reply-To: <1436437161.677.20.camel@ssalewski.de> Message-ID: References: <1436400557 DOT 676 DOT 46 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <1436437161 DOT 677 DOT 20 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 12:46 +0930, Erich Heinzle (a1039181 AT gmail DOT com) > [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >> The reason I have been using Java for a few recent utilities is that >> it is >> what is being taught in my comp sci subjects, and practical tasks help >> me >> to familiarise myself with the language. >> If we remain vaguely compatible with what the majority of comp sci and >> engineering students > > Yes I heart that Java is the basic language teached at universities > today. But my impression was that smart students do not really love that > language. I don't like Java at all, but I have to cite a counter-example on this. If you look at the participants of the big international independent programming competitions, they often use Java. Some competitions even limit what languages you can use (for example topcoder uses C++, C# and Java AFAIK). The most professional contestants are really really good - they solve problems at an incredible rate with unbelievable accuracy. Even after doing that for 20+ hours in a row... Not only that, they are equally good in solving "classic" (algorithmic) problems, image processing, sound processing, hardware control, etc. I got to know this beceause in the near past I was preparing tasks for Challenge24 during 5 full seasons. We, as task writers, had to race them from year to year to make tasks even harder so that the best teams won't get bored by the end of the 24 hours final. Regards, Igor2