Re: Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot.

From: Stephen Kellett (snail_at_objmedia.demon.co.uk)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:56:15 +0100

In message <2n0j1qFrfncoU1@uni-berlin.de>, Brandon J. Van Every
<try_vanevery_at_mycompanyname@yahoo.com> writes
>Indeed, I see career instability as a primary determinant of such changes.
>If you are making a lot of money using C++ and are happy / complacent with
>what you're doing for a living, why would you look at anything else?

In my case, its happy with what I'm doing, must have low level access.
Got several million lines of C++ and assembly already and more on the
way - changing language is not an option. We want the entire source base
in one language as much as possible.

For a different project I'm using Java because its mandated by someone
else.

I hope I never become complacent - I'm always looking for something
interesting to work on, or technology issue to follow. Regarding
languages, its just a time thing and not wanting to waste time on
something that isn't really going to make an impact on my career (how do
you choose the right language to put some effort into? Not as easy a
question as it first appears). I'd never heard of OCaml until a few days
ago, then all of a sudden in multiple different places people are
mentioning it. Looks interesting, but I haven't had time to study the
docs yet.

Stephen 

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