Timeline for Is it wise to be going back and forth between two programming languages? [closed]
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| Aug 22, 2012 at 21:06 | history | notice removed | ChrisF | ||
| Aug 10, 2012 at 9:40 | history | closed |
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| S Aug 8, 2012 at 19:33 | answer | added | Erik Reppen | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Aug 8, 2012 at 19:33 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Erik Reppen | ||
| Aug 8, 2012 at 18:17 | comment | added | Orcris | Learning two languages is nothing. In any given day, I will program in Ruby/Ruby on Rails, C++, C#, and Lisp. Knowing multiple languages is great, and most programmers know four or five. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 18:03 | answer | added | luis.espinal | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:52 | comment | added | luis.espinal | Why would someone ask if knowing/using more than one thing is a detrimental practice (specially if said thing requires substantial intellectual effort)? | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:35 | history | notice added | yannis | Needs detailed answers | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/233248930299772928 | ||
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:00 | answer | added | ist_lion | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 16:31 | answer | added | Sarel Botha | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 15:44 | answer | added | John Bode | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 15:31 | comment | added | Justin ᚅᚔᚈᚄᚒᚔ | @scrwtp: Tony the Pony would argue otherwise. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 15:09 | answer | added | Maciek Talaska | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 14:48 | answer | added | binarycleric | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 14:20 | comment | added | Caleb | Just two? Many programmers regularly work in a number of languages. Knowing several gives you a larger set of tools to draw from. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 14:11 | comment | added | user29079 | Knowing all the dirty details of one language is no doubt very useful. But when you work with multiple languages, you will at some point down the road find yourself designing parts of the program in a certain way, regardless of what language you are currently working in. This is a kind of programmer nirvana, where the language becomes secondary and the application is what matters. That is a great place to be, because it means you have potential as a programmer even in the future, when people are working in some new fancy Z++ language. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 14:10 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @LaminSanneh: most of the projects I work on have already a certain code base in a given language, and even when I start a new project, I am seldom completely free in choosing the language. So, where should be any "wisdom" in doing only C# programming in the future and refusing to do anything else? The company I work for would not be very happy with that, I guess. Is your situation so very different that a question like "shall I do only development in language XYZ in the future" makes any sense for you? | |
| S Aug 8, 2012 at 14:01 | history | suggested | Cloudy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2012 at 13:58 | comment | added | Chad Harrison | @LaminSanneh What Doc Brown is getting at is he presentation of your question makes it seem that you have the choice to exclusively choose one or the other where most people are required to trudge through multiple languages to accomplish a certain task. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 13:54 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 8, 2012 at 13:52 | answer | added | Jon Hanna | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 13:24 | comment | added | Lamin Sanneh | @Doc brown...I am sorry but I do not understand your question? | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 13:13 | answer | added | Yusubov | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 13:12 | answer | added | Karl Bielefeldt | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 12:29 | comment | added | Doc Brown | You ask this question as if your were you totally free to choose between C# and PHP - is that really the case? | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 11:55 | answer | added | Sign | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 11:49 | answer | added | jfrankcarr | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Aug 8, 2012 at 11:05 | history | suggested | mhoran_psprep | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2012 at 11:01 | comment | added | SK-logic | It will certainly harm you if you limit yourself to just two languages. Get more different tools into your toolbox. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 10:58 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 8, 2012 at 10:47 | comment | added | Lamin Sanneh | @scrwtp. Is that the case even if the one trick pony is much more proficient in his one trick than the jack of all trades is in each of his trades? Just a friendly question. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 10:42 | answer | added | Sergey Kalinichenko | timeline score: 37 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 10:38 | answer | added | Konrad Rudolph | timeline score: 75 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 10:35 | answer | added | Deco | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 10:32 | comment | added | scrwtp | better to be a jack of all trades than a one trick pony | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 10:28 | history | edited | superM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed grammar and improved formatting
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| Aug 8, 2012 at 10:19 | history | asked | Lamin Sanneh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |