214 C++ Sadly, though, it’s probably in the best interest of every computer scientist and serious programmer to learn C++. It’s quickly becoming a line item on resumes. Over the past few years, we’ve known many programmers who know how to program in C++, who can even write reasonably good pro- grams in the language… …but they hate it.

The Evolution of a Programmer 215 The Evolution of a Programmer [We’d love to assign credit for this, but it’s been whizzing around Cyber- space for so long that the task would probably be impossible. —Eds.] High school/Junior high 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 END First year in college program Hello(input, output) begin writeln ('Hello world') end. Senior year in college (defun hello () (print (list 'HELLO 'WORLD))) New professional #include stdio.h main (argc,argv) int argc char **argv { printf ("Hello World!\n") }