| So we are on agreement (how weird that happened often on HN, at least on tech!) I also add that you need to explore that languages to become talented. I'm pretty certain to be an average developer, at most. Not because low self-esteem, but after 20+ years I have know people above and below. BUT, the use of many paradigms have help me to look like much better than if I have been stuck on a single lang (or paradigm). I credit, by intuition, to FoxPro in how I tend to be better on RDBMS work. Delphi, for how build UIs and have certain understanding of low level. And so on. Every new lang/paradigm make you better, and that lessons carry over. One of my favorite anecdotes was someday I was stuck with C# solving a task, that even with libraries can't get. I think to myself "let do that on python". I solve it in no time. I port it to C#, and almost get the same line count! |