[sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu> wrote:
>> Yeap. Also, how the hell do you think things work under the hood anyway?
>
>I was about to say that...
>
>So far I encountered only one example where OOP really made sense to me:
>LPC (the programming language for LPmuds). Wizard is a superset of player,
>which is a superset of monster, which is a superset of "living"... But
>apart from that I prefer to throw my own pointers.
>
>Rainer

[begin vent]
My sentiments exactly, I've been a C programmer (not C++) for many years. 
I'm good at it and have been happy doing it.  Whenever I need to write a
special app that runs under Linux, I use C.  But the skill is considered
stale, I can't find a job doing it.  So here I am, even as I write this,
studying ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET and ADO.NET just so I can put food on the
table.  I have an abject loathing for Microsoft, but that's where the jobs
are and I _can_ learn this.
[end vent]

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