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Well, 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 q
by silentbicycle 17y ago
Well, 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.