| > Checked your profile and you seem to be smart, yet I think you are wrong again : ) (sure you have got enough sleep lately? not been talking to much to marketers?) I am not sure why you decided to include this toxic, thorny little jab in your post. Please know that it's not appreciated. > The most well known styles of programming (imperative, functional, object oriented etc) have been unchanged for two or more decades as well. This is not true. The state of the art in all of these has advanced considerably, and many things that were once considered good practice have been discarded over time. > And a 10 year old c or html tutorial still works and still lets people start solving real world problems. I'm not sure what definition of "real world problem" you're talking about. Certainly nothing I learned 10 years ago directly pertains to my work today... Not pure math; its quite rare to use C for that sort of problem anymore. Not networking problems, 10 years ago you couldn't write servers the way you can today (nor should you save for perhaps embedded systems like microcontrollers?) Not UI either. Perhaps simple text munging? Doing that in C is pure futility compared to what we have today. As for HTML, a 10 year old HTML tutorial would give you almost no insight into modern webpages, and a very large amount of it would be "N-hancements". > No, but you directed it at a new programmer who shared something that a lot of people in that situation seems to struggle with. I'm not sure what your point is. Nor am I a huge fan of Beck's philosophy in this. |