Re: Advice for mid-life career change (to programming)

Tony <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Walter" <walter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:YtednZTX5IHLewrfRVn-rA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> It certainly won't hurt to learn C++ or D.

> D? Are you joking or is that something that I haven't heard about?

It's a new programming language with a a lot of similarities to C++,
see e.g.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html

and Walter Bright (the person you were replying to) is, as far as I
know, the inventor (and implementor) of it. So it is rather likely
he wasn't joking;-)
Regards, Jens
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