There is an interesting piece related to the topic here &lt; <a href="http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/february/whyYouShouldLearnToCode">http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/february/whyYouShouldLearnToCode</a> &gt; <div><br>
</div><div>It appears to be a reaction to the efforts associated with this clip &lt; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc</a>  &gt;</div><div><br></div><div>I also don&#39;t know how true this is but someone once mentioned it to me that many ongoing MIT students at the the time were involved in the development of Windows X.P at Microsoft. Was also told that they (MIT students / teachers) rarely use anything they do not develop, beginning from compilers (LISP / Scheme, et al) to learning materials, IDEs and code libraries, Web servers, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Martin. </div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Calvin Omari <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:calvinebarongo@gmail.com" target="_blank">calvinebarongo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div> friend of mine doing MSC SE at Carnegie Mellon University in Silicon Valley CA tells me their class assignment are actual projects sourced from neighbouring software giants like Google, Yahoo etc.. with this kind of exposure, i bet one will not end up not knowing what to do<br>

<br>regards<br></div>Calvin<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Michael Pedersen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sku@kaal.dk" target="_blank">sku@kaal.dk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 2/27/13 8:39 AM, Peter Karunyu wrote:<br>
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I would assume that any computer language is itself written in another lower level computer language since you will need to code the parser, the compiler etc. Unless of course, its machine code.<br>
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What you code your compiler/language in is almost irrelevant, unless you are boot-strapping your language stack.<br>
Personally I find functional oriented programming languages to be quite suited for the job i.e. ML or F#<br>
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The theory behind it (as Kris says) is much more important: non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA) and deterministic finite automaton (DFA) any developer will benefit from learning these theories... There is a lot of spill-over &quot;knowledge&quot; from learning these theories such as general use of state-machines.<br>


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