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Never learned JavaScript when I was starting out in 1995-8. Always found a way to hack things together, but only by adjusting existing scripts. It's frequently
by prawn 11y ago
Never learned JavaScript when I was starting out in 1995-8. Always found a way to hack things together, but only by adjusting existing scripts. It's frequently a choke point for me now where I have to delegate to someone else to fix something that's beyond me. At 38 and being very busy, I don't have (or make) time to learn it now.
I have worked for myself for almost the entirety of my career, so never had to face a job search or technical interview or anything like that.
- michaelpinto 11y agoI think you should forgive yourself a bit more: Back in 1995-8 most programmers never took JavaScript seriously because the "real code" was be done in a language like Java or Perl. We tend to forget that in a pre-web 2.0 era it was sort of seen as a hack to do small things rather than giving an app a front end. Besides if you really wanted to make a career mistake back then it would have been to master Lingo.
- prawn 11y agoThat's correct! CGI-BIN folders in every site. You might get a laugh out of this after your Lingo comment. I should probably consider it a career mistake but I've got by for a long time despite it - I settled on ColdFusion when it was an Allaire product, and have stuck with it since. Now using Railo. CF is not the trendiest of setups to use. ;)
- michaelpinto 11y agoFirst thought: "Wait, there's NO way ColdFusion can still be around today!" Looks online "OMG!" Although I think Adobe is still supporting Director, but alas my paying CD-ROM gigs ended in the 90s...