$640.00 to fill the tanks...

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:34:57 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:
I ended up deciding it was easier to leave programming for management
than to learn a language as messed up as C++.

Those who CAN, DO... Those who CAN'T, go to management... grin

It was bad enough learning C after having used Pascal
and VAX Fortran, but C++ was just too bizarre.

C++ was originally just a translator that translated the C++ code into
'C' code for compilation by the normal 'C' compiler... Eventually,
they created an actual C++ compiler though... If you look at the C++
syntax and just try to figure out what it would take to implement that
in 'C', it starts making a bit more sense... Quite frankly though, I
don't use all the features in the language... I just haven't had the
need to use them in all the years that I've been programming in it...

Grumman-581 wrote:

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:34:57 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:

I ended up deciding it was easier to leave programming for management
than to learn a language as messed up as C++.


Those who CAN, DO... Those who CAN'T, go to management... grin

.... and make twice as much money. big grin

Matt

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:30:27 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:
... and make twice as much money. big grin

Sometimes, but not always... I'm fairly certain that for at least the
last 10-12 years, I've made more than my direct managers... Not sure
about the 2nd layer of management, but I suspect that the 3rd layer
(CIO) definitely made more than I did...

Personally though, I don't like management duties... I much prefer the
actual satisfaction of designing and creating a system...