On 3 May 2007 12:12:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Levy) wrote:

>I went through this exact route. I was a sysprog for a number of years
>than transitioned over to software development on the mainframe. I moved
>over to development on OS/2 and than windows. The tools and debuggers
>made it quite a bit easier but I still had to learn/understand platform
>specific content. That took the time. I did not have to spend much time
>in "how things worked" but Chris is right a Guru has experience of many
>years.


A lot of the differences are in discovering where things are, as well
as the tools.

For instance, for a programmer setting up a jBuilder environment and
understanding all the interactions can be more difficult than learning
Java.

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