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by nousernamesleft 4496 days ago
>Honestly, if your thirteen year old technology choices are still having an impact today, then you're doing the wrong thing regardless.

Really? If you don't randomly flit from fad to fad you are "doing the wrong thing"? What if I made a good choice 15 years ago? Should I have stopped using postgresql simply because I chose it so long ago?
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untog 4496 days ago
Really? If you don't randomly flit from fad to fad you are "doing the wrong thing"?

That wasn't what I suggested at all. My point is that you shouldn't be so focused on one language that you can program in that and that only. Even just being bilingual is a massive step forwards in overall programming skills rather than ASP.NET skills, or PHP skills, or...

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nousernamesleft 4496 days ago
>That wasn't what I suggested at all

Obviously I can't tell what you meant to say, but it is what you did say. "If your thirteen year old technology choices are still having an impact today, then you're doing the wrong thing regardless". My thirteen year old technology choices are still having an impact today. You explicitly said I am "doing the wrong thing". I believe that is incorrect.

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