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On 5/29/20 8:33 AM, Bob Cagle wrote:
Just curious - anyone else ever experienced this type of bias?
I have been coding since my junior year of high school (1978-1979). Even
then, RPG and COBOL were looked down upon, but that is not the issue.
I have seen "trendy" languages come and go over the past 42 years. And I
have seen a steady stream of programmers who learn one language, and
treat it as a panacea. Whereas I am (or have been at one time) fluent in
BASIC (several dialects), QBASIC(which is properly NOT a dialect, but a
derivative that itself has multiple dialects), FORTRAN (several
dialects), COBOL, Pascal, PL/I, (LISP), C, Modula-2, Assembler (PDP-11,
8086, and MI), RPG (both OPM and ILE), SmallTalk, and Java. My conscious
choice of a broad background gives me the ability to pick up new
programming languages rather quickly, and to understand what's going on
even in languages in which I would not attempt to write code.
It is also what makes me a stickler for linguistic purity, and what
motivates me to "ride The Cycle" whenever an RPG progam can make
constructive use of it.
When a programmer only learns one language, he or she is
overspecializing. And I think we all know the old saying about what
happens when the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer: every problem in
the world looks like a nail.
--
JHHL
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