Submission + - The Case For D (ddj.com)
WalterBright writes: "Andrei Alexandrescu is heavily involved in the design of the D programming language, and has written about what makes D a compelling and highly productive language."
So you want to be a programmer? lists several courses and their value for a programming career. Foreign language comes at or near the bottom.
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