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Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one?

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fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> writes:
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> but if you know 20 various wide-span technologies it costs time counted in years.. Hadnt you find that maybe when sparing this all time and investing in
> narrow work wouldnt be better?
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In a nutshell: you do end up knowing some things narrowly, but once you
know a few different kinds of things, each extra thing is less and less
extra effort, so the cost isn't as awful, and in the longer term pays
back handsomely. Also, ideas from one can help you see new ways to do
things in what you know narrowly. This is how languages develop, indeed:
a lot of the "new" things that come to a new version of what you
currently use and understand really well, will actually be old things
from other languages with which you're already familiar. And, where you
have a choice in language, you will be able to choose a good tool for
the job.

It also helps in staying employed: if you can do a few things, then you
can slide a bit in your job toward the things you can see that your
employer needs and few of your colleagues can give. (For instance, in a
group of mostly Java and JavaScript programmers now, I'm currently
increasing my involvement in the C++ stuff that our users are wanting
more from us in.)

-- Mark

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is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 05:58 -0800
  Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-02-25 16:46 +0000
    Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 04:31 -0800
      Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-02-26 12:48 +0000
        Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 05:33 -0800
        Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-02-26 13:47 +0000
      Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-02-26 13:11 +0000
        Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 05:45 -0800
          Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-02-26 13:56 +0000
            Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 06:20 -0800
              Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-02-26 14:47 +0000
                Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 07:17 -0800
                Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 07:30 -0800

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