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Yeah, it's hard to understand when I, who am not even as multilingual as other programmers, code in... R, Python, Java, Apex, VB, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, and

Yeah, it's hard to understand when I, who am not even as multilingual as other programmers, code in... R, Python, Java, Apex, VB, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, and that's just my recent experience. Further back it was C and Pascal. In a lot of ways I just don't "get" how one could only ever learn/know ONE language. Though I'm biased (I work there), I'd recommend Dad check out Pluralsight for quality affordable CS education.

dasil003 10y ago
Imagine that 40 years ago you joined a Fortune 500 company as a junior developer writing COBOL. There's a good likelihood that your entire environment was decided by some 8-figure enterprise sales process; your OS and tooling were vendor provided and custom set up by your own internal IT team; deploying software was something that was done by a team that only saw your code after a rigid human QA process; you never even saw a PC or hobbyist computer until the time when you already had 2 or 3 kids with little spare time. Granted there are a lot of assumptions there, but I don't think it's too hard to imagine how someone could spend a career sheltered from the current GitHub-driven development world and be completely overwhelmed.