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On 2017-12-19 19:28, Eric Douglas wrote:
> I thought it was annoying and pointless to learn Spanish when I already know English, yet we keep learning new languages for programming, some of which seem tedious pointless and redundant.  Powershell doesn't do anything I would need to do which I haven't already done in vbscript?  Java can do everything PHP can do?  I feel like they need a flowchart to show you which language to use based on what it does differently and/or better than any other language.
> 
> We get the revolutionary changes, going from Assembler to C, from JCL/COBOL/DB2 to Java/SQL.  Now I couldn't even guess how many languages there are, seems like thousands.  You could pick 5 and feel like that's all any company should ever need and the next job ad will have one you missed.  It's like imagine if it were spoken language roulette.  You bother to learn English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Chinese.  Then apply for interpreter jobs that are like sorry we needed someone who knows English, French, Russian, and Korean.
> 
> So, which languages do we need to learn?  Most companies don't seem to want to train on the job, and if you wait to learn until you see the wanted ad it will be filled before you know it well enough.

You are, in my humble opinion, sorely mistaken as to what being a
programmer is about.

The natural language equivalent of a computer programmer is not the
translator.

It's the philologist.

-- 
DF.

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