From: Kero <kero@...>
Date: 2005-12-03T08:17:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Programming Newbie: Ruby or Java?

> """the reality is that the real world and universities don't always
> match up."""
>
> I'm a current CS student at ASU (arizona, US) and this statement is SO true. :/
> Besides learning Java, C, & C++... I've had to learn Lisp/Scheme and Prolog.  I mean who uses Prolog??  It's basically dead.
> School teaches theory mostly.
> Experience teaches you the rest I guess.

If schools/universities don't teach theory, who does?

Learn from prolog (or any other language for that matter) what it offers,
then apply it everywhere you like.

Kero.