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I've never met a one language programmer. I have, however, met some who were only proficient in one. That's the big difference these days. You now have to be pr
by orangethirty 14y ago
I've never met a one language programmer. I have, however, met some who were only proficient in one. That's the big difference these days. You now have to be proficient in various languages in order to build stuff.
- AdrianRossouw 14y agoif you don't consider html a programming language (and it's really a markup language anyway..), i know dozens of single language programmers who only know PHP. In fact, I think the majority of developers I know fall into that category.
- bennyg 14y agoAs a data point, I'm strongly proficient in one (Objective-C) but use PHP,HTML,CSS and a small amount of JS to supplement the data handling, web services, and create the web site side of my mobile apps. I can get done what I need to in those other 4, but I can't sit down and hack out a whole project like I can Obj-C. I'm also strongly proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign though, so I don't know if that offsets my proficiency in only one language.
- pekk 14y agoIf I am mainly proficient in just C++ or Java (for examples), it really isn't true that I can't build stuff. I can build stuff. Whether it's the stuff you want to build is none of my concern.
- AndrewDucker 14y agoAll of my coding is in C# (for work). I don't work in anything else. Of course, this is probably a lot rarer outside of business apps.
- orangethirty 14y agoI bet you have had to write some SQL... (:
- AndrewDucker 14y agoNope. I write XML messages that are then sent to services that handle that kind of thing. (I know SQL, due to a previous job, but I don't write it in my current position )