Advice to a Junior in High School?

[Michael Hudson]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

> Tom Plunket <tomas at fancy.org> wrote:
> > Learn Python, learn C++, learn Lisp.  Understand what you like
> > and don't like about each of these languages.
> 
> The most imporant thing you can learn in school is how to learn.
> Especially in a fast-moving technology field, most of the cutting-edge 
> stuff you learn in school is going to be routine in 5 years and obsolete 
> in 10.

I'm sure there are people who learnt ML during the CS program at
Cambridge more than five years ago...

<fx:runs away :-)>

-- 
  Two things I learned for sure during a particularly intense acid
  trip in my own lost youth: (1) everything is a trivial special case
  of something else; and, (2) death is a bunch of blue spheres.
                                             -- Tim Peters, 1 May 1998