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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (462525)	3/10/2009 9:59:39 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574737

Actually, there is considerable evidence that musicians/music majors make great programming staff. In fact, Systematics, the large bank software company, used to consider musicianship a job preference for development staff. Bentway's story could be accounted for in any number of ways. For example, if this guy came in with his object-oriented concepts and none of the programmers knew about OO programming, they would be totally confused and unproductive. As CJ mentioned, it takes a good year for programmers to get up to speed in transitioning. But given a properly trained staff, most substantial projects will benefit from OO design. But you have to put in a lot more time up front to develop a strong object hierarchy and the actual coding takes far less time.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (462525)	3/10/2009 3:37:19 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1574737

"I guess "geniuses" are supposed to figure it out on their own." Well, the jump from Java to C++ is pretty small. Bigger jump to C because the programming paradigm is different. Languages come and they go. When I started programming, FORTRAN and COBOL were big. And ratfor was pretty new. Then Pascal and Ada were supposed to be the future. But, C did an end run around them both, birthing C++ in the process to complete the job. Things have thankfully stagnated, Java, Ruby, python, etc. are C++ knockoffs, often with some Perl regex stuff rolled in. So, if you are going to write code, you have to be nimble.