2009/7/7 3rdShift <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:23 +0100, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: >> 2009/7/6 Andrea Grandi <[email protected]>: >> > Hi >> > >> > 2009/7/6 Klaus Rotter <[email protected]>: >> >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> > The way I understand it, Qt uses C++ but GTK uses C. So does one >> >> need to >> >>> learn C++ to write Maemo apps now? That would suck... >> > >> > I think you'll be able to write them in Python too.... >> >> What always stopped me from writing Qt application was that I had to >> learn a new language to use it. >> Of course the same reason applies the other way around. >> >> As much as I would love to learn Qt, I really hate C++. >> And I don't want to rely too much on Python. > > If you plan to stay in the business as career software developer, then > the ability and willingness to retool yourself with new language/OS is a > must. Otherwise, you have a slim chance to make a living for yourself > and your family. Let me see, Algol/IBM360, Fortran/IBM360, PL/1/IBM360, > Pascal/PC, C/Win,UNIX, C++/Win,UNIX,Embedded, Java/* - you get the > picture. And this barely covers first 15 years of paid experience. The > army of software developers is expotentially growing in east europe, > asia, china, india, and here is US and writing new languages has become > extremely easy compare to the old days. >
I know that you need to be up to date with nowadays technologies. Not sure, though, I am willing to do it for this hobby. -- anidel _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
