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From Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: java developers
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Eric Sosman wrote:
>      Questions very like yours are sometimes posed by people seeking
> to enter the programming trade and wondering which language to build
> a career on.  If that's your situation, then once again the question
> makes little sense.  This is a fashion-driven industry in many ways,
> where languages and frameworks and disciplines and paradigms rise and
> fall like hem lines.  You may make a career as a programer, but you
> will not make a career as a Java programmer or as a Python programmer
> or as a COBOL programmer or as an AnySingleLanguage programmer.  Expect
> to use many languages over time, some regularly and repeatedly, some
> just a few times in special cases.  If you're the world's best Java
> programmer but will not learn Guava or Canberra or Mastodon or
> whatever the next fashion is, your career will be brief and boring.

Not entirely true.  There are plenty of COBOL programmers out there who don't need much of a second language.  There are AnySingleLanguage programmer career tracks that are long and boring.

-- 
Lew
Rhetoric aside, I don't actually hate COBOL, nor recommend against it.

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java developers curixinfotech <curixinfotech.540mfz@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au> - 2011-11-30 07:14 -0500
  Re: java developers Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-30 07:55 -0500
    Re: java developers Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 06:32 -0800
      Re: java developers Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-30 09:41 -0800
      Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 17:03 -0500
        Re: java developers Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-02 14:30 -0800
          Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 18:40 -0500
            Re: java developers Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-12-03 14:42 +0000
              Re: java developers Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-03 10:09 -0500
                Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:17 -0500
              Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:11 -0500
    Re: java developers curixinfotech <curixinfotech.54dibz@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au> - 2011-12-07 05:56 -0500
  Re: java developers Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-02 01:48 -0800
  Re: java developers Rajiv Gupta <rajiv@invalid.com> - 2011-12-02 22:16 +1100
    Re: java developers David Segall <david@address.invalid> - 2011-12-02 23:17 +1100
      Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 16:29 -0500
        Re: java developers David Segall <david@address.invalid> - 2011-12-03 15:15 +1100
    Re: java developers Henk van Voorthuijsen <voorth@xs4all.nl> - 2011-12-02 03:39 -0800
    Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-02 14:43 +0100
    Re: java developers Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 07:32 -0800
    Re: java developers Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-12-02 18:18 +0100
      Re: java developers Rajiv Gupta <rajiv@invalid.com> - 2011-12-04 10:50 +1100
        Re: java developers Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2011-12-03 19:43 -0800
        Re: java developers Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-04 10:56 +0000
        Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-05 11:00 +0100
          Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-05 22:38 -0500
            Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-06 10:33 +0100
          Re: java developers Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 21:17 +0000
            Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-07 15:09 +0100
  Re: java developers dsnitelex@gmail.com - 2011-12-02 21:51 -0800
    Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-03 10:51 +0100
      Re: java developers Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-12-03 11:41 -0400
      Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:28 -0500
        Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-05 10:31 +0100
          Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-05 22:35 -0500
            Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-06 10:25 +0100
        Re: java developers Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 21:10 +0000
    Re: java developers BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2011-12-05 22:52 -0800
      Re: java developers Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-12-06 06:49 -0400

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