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by deltasevennine 1339 days ago
That's because you've been learning languages that are similar. The algol family of languages with OOP.

You need to learn languages outside of this family to see the benefit. But the benefit won't be in your ability to do "business". It will be exclusively improvements in programming unrelated to "business programming"

>That’s why today I tell junior programmers that almost everything we do these days could be accomplished with Bash, text files to hold the data and static html files.

Why? Junior programmers are aware of this already. And get this: junior programmers are even aware that everything can be accomplished with assembly language. They are also aware why things aren't done in assembly, typically.
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gjm11 1339 days ago
> That's because you've been learning languages that are similar. The algol family of languages with OOP.

What makes you so confident of that?

I took a look at eric4smith's website. His current language of choice is Elixir, which is not in fact a member of "the Algol family of languages with OOP".

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deltasevennine 1339 days ago
That's one language. He said he learned 9. I'm betting out of the nine of those most of them are from the algol family and involve OOP. Yeah it's an assumption. My confidence is based on the fact that most languages are from the algol family and are OOP.
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mattmanser 1339 days ago
The GP didn't mention any languages, but if you open his profile it says 'Elixir developer'.

Maybe a brief bit of research before throwing stones next time?

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deltasevennine 1339 days ago
GP mentioned 9 languages. I'm betting most of those 9 languages are inline with what I said. Yeah it's an assumption, but it's a very likely one.

Second of all, no stones were thrown. I made an educated guess. Don't assume I'm "throwing stones", this is not an attack. Just a statement of my thoughts.

I would say the "throwing stones" comment was waay more accusatory and presumptuous then mine, and would indeed require verification before pointing a finger. But to each his own. Yes... I certainly admit I'm making an assumption about the 9 programming languages he learned.

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