Re: genral question

Dominic Willems wrote:

Although this is a general statement often used and probably a
truism, I don't think it necessarily increases your chances of
interesting employment. If you ask me, success lies in
specialization, not vast general experience, especially in the
informatics business.

It may not increase the chance of employment (although I can't see how
knowing more languages wouldn't help), but I think I certainly became a
better programmer when I ventured out from under my comfy Delphi
umbrella, and that *does* help my chances.

Instead of approaching problems and instinctively thinking how I'd
solve that in Delphi, I now generally attempt to come up with a higher
level solution which transcends language, and then figure out how that
would be implemented in Delphi/C#/whatever.

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