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Re:The 'Anti-Java' Professor and the Jobless Programmers by tgdavies on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @06:41PM (#261208)
"the idea of quizzing candidates on whether they can diagnose and track down compiler or processor bugs is similarly useless"

Maybe Ada compilers have lots of bugs. :-)

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Re:The 'Anti-Java' Professor and the Jobless Programmers by cconstantine on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @11:41PM (#261452)
The compilers? No.

Everything around them? Oh dear god yes.

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