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benibela on April 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Better C – A subset of D Programming Language

Well, I learned the better technology (Pascal) rather than the popular tech (C), and then I could not find a development job

sitkack on April 30, 2020 [–]

I am going to weaken my argument a bit and say that once something gets to be a large enough part of status quo, you have to learn it, at least enough to get by. Back then it was C, now it is JavaScript, Python and Kubernetes.

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