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To make it clear - you could replace lisp with erlang/haskell/forth and it still would be sad. I am still student and I see that many people who are still in co
by rednum 15y ago
To make it clear - you could replace lisp with erlang/haskell/forth and it still would be sad. I am still student and I see that many people who are still in college (so their programming habits are relatively new and shallow) are reluctant to try new technologies. I am aware that good projects are not about choosing cool, full of buzzwords like 'monad' language, but still, most people want to stick with tool they learned first for everything, which is sad.
- cookiecaper 15y agoAt some point a balance has to be struck. If you spend all your time trying out new technologies, you never really get to know any of them very well, and your productivity is constantly hampered as you relearn the ropes on every project. I am all for learning new things, but I think there are definitely cases where it's reasonable to pass on rewriting everything just because someone thinks that "smart people use language Y, not X", and "X developers are too dumb to use Y".