But having a variety of practical topics is equally important. If you want to get into IT trade, learning things like C#, MS SQL Server and Active Directory (or Java, Oracle 12c and OID) has no detrimental effect to achieving that goal. I don't consider doing VAX Macro programming back in the university waste of time, certainly not feeling sorry about that. Regards Slav
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