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> After a few days playing around with Python, I felt okay with it. I didn’t love Python, Probably should try longer than a few days, but this is the best/only
by njharman 17y ago
> After a few days playing around with Python, I felt okay with it. I didn’t love Python,
Probably should try longer than a few days, but this is the best/only metric for personal programming language (business/group programming may impose other metrics).
If you don't love the language you're programming with, you should find another.
- nearestneighbor 17y ago> If you don't love the language you're programming with, you should find another. It's the other way around. If you love a language, you are probably unaware of its flaws or of other languages (It's like the stupidity-confidence correlation). This is one of the reasons fanboys make me want to puke.
- msie 17y agoSo you should stick with a language you sorta like? Wouldn't that lead to less mastery of the language and the same result (unawareness of its flaws)?
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- silentbicycle 17y agoWell, if you love a language enough, you'll eventually be dragged through all of its weak areas and get real perspective. The important thing is just to keep quiet during the "best thing EVER!!!" phase. The reason fanboys are so annoying is the combination of enthusiasm and relatively shallow knowledge.
- nearestneighbor 17y ago> Well, if you love a language enough, you'll eventually be dragged through all of its weak areas and get real perspective. You'll be dragged, but you won't get any perspective if you know only that language.
- silentbicycle 17y agoOh, absolutely, but switching languages every weekend isn't going to get you deep perspective either. It's probably best to focus on just a couple languages, but languages that are sufficiently different from each other that they expose you a wide variety of techniques.