Re: Should I study C++ . Is it too late. I am 37 Now
- From: markwh04@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:23:56 -0700
On May 30, 5:46 pm, Patricia Shanahan <p...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I've met programmers in their 20's and 30's who only knew one
programming language, and could not learn another because they were too
set in their ways. They regarded the way things were done in the
language they knew as the One True Way to program, and anything
different in another language was a defect.
Absolutism is a characteristic feature of the 20's. This is why the
ranks of idealists, protestors, insurgents, etc. tend to be dominated
by those in their 20's. The mind doesn't stop maturing at 18 or 21.
There's another stage it goes through, rising up another level of
advancement, somewhere around 30-35 or so. Piaget was wrong. His model
is incomplete: it is missing that extra stage. Absolutism (maybe)
drops out by then. But the wisdom is latent in the US constitution
(e.g. trust nobody under 35 to be president).
The relevant question is not "is it too late?", but rather "is it too
soon?"
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