# Who is good at HTML?
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**Created:** [February 6, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-is-good-at-html/24169 "2007-02-06T16:00:46Z")\
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**Author:**  [@neonglh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neonglh)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-is-good-at-html/24169/35 "2007-02-07T17:34:29Z")
> [@jetlounge](#):
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> learn it the right way…whatever…its not just this ‘html’ class…i think its a statement on universities being behind the times on providing skills that can actually be used once a person graduates…
> html…i would have no use for that person on my dev team if all they knew was what this instructor was pushing.
> case in point…when i went for my comp eng degee, my programming classes were …wait for it…Pascal…
> at the time C was where it was at in the business community…but i gues it was either Pascal or Cobol they could offer. great!
What about us who graduated with these degrees and now do it for a living very successfully
There is a place for every language. People will argue “I used to code with punch cards, therefore i’m a better programmer then you”. If you learn your trade, and then perform it, I think the universities are doing their job well 😛
–mark
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