Re: I need an understanding of what C++ is good for -Thanks

From: Howard (alicebt_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: 20 Apr 2004 16:47:02 EDT

"Christopher Benson-Manica" <ataru@nospam.cyberspace.org> wrote in message
news:c641t6$6jb$1@chessie.cirr.com...
> Howard <alicebt@hotmail.com> spoke thus:
>
> > Well, that's where I disagree with you. I'd rather have a truly good
> > programmer with little or no C++ experience than a mediocre C++
programmer.
>
> What if his language is FORTRAN? Or COBOL?
>
> --
> Christopher Benson-Manica | I *should* know what I'm talking about - if I
> ataru(at)cyberspace.org | don't, I need to know. Flames welcome.

Ok...what if it is? Is he good at it? I'd probably have trouble getting
much out of an interview with a COBOL programmer, admittedly, seeing as how
it's so different in its very nature from C++, Pascal, BASIC or FORTRAN (the
ones I'm most familiar with). So I'd probably talk about problem solving in
general, projects they've worked on, etc. I certainly wouldn't refuse to
interview them just because they used a different language in the past.
Unless of course I had such a wide pool of applicants to choose from that I
could truly afford to be so picky, which isn't likely in my experience.

-Howard

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