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I also consider language religion to be a red flag. The folks who wrote SICP said it better than I " Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel
by shanemhansen 14y ago
I also consider language religion to be a red flag. The folks who wrote SICP said it better than I " Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn"
- happycube 14y agoThis makes the "READ SICP" meme rather ironic ;) I've dabbled in node a bit and have an odd idea that Javascript is much like Python with C syntax and a bit of quirkiness. I've got a ~400 line program that parses a Debian packages file and lays out build dependencies - sadly I hadn't learned of germinate at the time. And having to change languages to scale the website further because you've Made It can be a good problem to have...
- neilk 14y agoThere is a subset of JavaScript that is Python-like with C-syntax. But at some point you're going to have to abandon that analogy and learn more idiomatic ways of working in JS.