Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java developers Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:32:46 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32752303.88.1322663566686.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prfx15> References: Reply-To: comp.lang.java.programmer@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.164.137.214 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1322663566 5587 127.0.0.1 (30 Nov 2011 14:32:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:32:46 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.164.137.214; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10363 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.