Don't think you meant to use the word detrimental there
But i agree, learning how to make things modular and abstracting problems into a proper design is what op is after.

Don't start with a object oriented language like C++ or java, better start with C. Maybe even take a look at Assembler

This post was edited by Rusemen on Apr 2 2014 01:11pm

Exactly. Don't learn the languages or paradigms the majority of modern businesses deploy in their products. Instead, learn an out dated language like C and type cast yourself as a systems developer, and spend all your free time learning a language even more outdated than C which every modern compiler can generate more efficiently.


I like this guy. He clearly gets it.